Final act: Arnhem veterans pay respects on 80th anniversary
WEB10 hours ago · Walking with a stick, flanked by two members of his family and bathed in the light of a late September morning, 99-year-old Geoff Roberts laid the last of the wreaths at the Airborne Memorial Service for the battle of Arnhem. Applause rang out around the war cemetery in Oosterbeek and a military band struck up Jerusalem as the former paratrooper approached the Cross of Sacrifice, a short ...
Parachutists commemorate 80th anniversary of ... - Associated Press News
WEB1 day ago · Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary Operation Market Garden. ... The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. ... Local mayor Rene Verhulst called the heath near Arnhem a …
Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden
WEB2 days ago · Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing ...
Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden - BBC
WEB2 days ago · Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden. Eighty years after hundreds of allied soldiers parachuted from military aircraft into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as part of a daring World ...
Paratroopers mark 80 years since Battle of Arnhem with daring …
WEB2 days ago · Paratroopers from eight Nato member countries, including the UK, USA, Portugal and Spain, parachuted from 12 aircraft into Ginkel Heath, a nature reserve near the Dutch town of Ede, to mark 80 ...
Paratroopers mark 80 years since the Battle of Arnhem
WEB2 days ago · Some 700 paratroopers took part in the jump, including the Red Devils, the British Army’s freefall parachute display team. The event commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, part of ...
Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to ... - ABC News
WEB1 day ago · 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 around 60,000 ...
In Pictures: Veterans watch as paratroopers leap to mark the …
WEB1 day ago · Paratroopers from Nato member countries jump on to Ginkel Heath in Ede, Netherlands, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem (Ben Birchall/PA) Veterans were joined by royalty ...
Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to commemorate …
WEB2 days ago · 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.
Paras fill skies over Arnhem in moving tribute to WW2 heroes
WEB1 day ago · Over 700 paratroopers jumped into the fields outside Arnhem today in a poignant tribute to those who died exactly 80 years ago. They landed in the same area where their predecessors arrived in ...
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