Paratroopers from the Dutch Air Mobile Brigade and 12 other NATO nations took part in a series of jumps over Ginkel Heath, watched by a small group of World War II veterans and some 60,000 spectators.

GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Operation ...

ARNHEM, Netherlands — According to historians, several key factors, including inclement weather and ill-placed drop zones, threatened the Allied forces’ success during the 1944 Operation Market Garden ...

In September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, an ambitious plan to end the war by seizing key bridges in the Netherlands. Airborne forces dropped deep behind enemy lines to capture ...

In September 1944, Allied leaders believed the war could be ended quickly. Operation Market Garden was meant to break through Germany in a single bold thrust. Instead, faulty assumptions, stretched ...

Bolesław Ostrowski, who has died aged 105, was freed from a Soviet slave labour camp in Western Siberia; then, having trained with Polish forces as a paratrooper, he took part in Operation ...

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