Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned ...

Some 700 paratroopers took part in the jump, including the Red Devils, the British Army’s freefall parachute display team.

Paratroopers from eight Nato member countries, including the UK, USA, Portugal and Spain, parachuted from 12 aircraft into ...

Events were held in the Netherlands to mark the 80th anniversary of an operation that did not achieve its key objective.

THE skies above Arnhem were full of parachutes again yesterday — 80 years after brave British troops made the same jump during World War Two. An audience of more than 100,000 people watched as 700 ...

Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...

The Princess Royal has laid a wreath and spoken with veterans at a service commemorating the soldiers who died during the Battle of Arnhem 80 years ago.

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 ...

as the one highway to Arnhem – a single narrow road – was subject to attacks and snarl-ups; Polish paratroopers, supporting the British 1 st Airborne, were delayed by bad weather; the radios ...

Those snowflakes were in fact paratroopers launching Operation Market ... many of whom now count Arnhem as their final resting place. The battle had a profound impact on the people of the city ...

The Dutch towns of Eindhoven and Nijmegen were successfully liberated, but the key objective – the bridge at Arnhem – remained in Nazi hands, despite the heroics of the British paratroopers ...

Operation Market Garden – the 80th anniversary of which takes place over September 17-25 – has gone down in history as a strategic failure. The brainchild of Field Marshal Bernard Law ...