Immortalised by the everyday phrase "a bridge too far", the failure to ... in Oosterbeek Two British soldiers killed in Operation Market Garden were laid to rest earlier this week with full ...

Operation Market Garden took place a few months after the ... It was further popularized by the book and then the hit 1977 ...

A commemorative parachute jump is to be held in the Netherlands to remember the 'bridge ... the operation's backstory. The set marks the D-Day landings and Operation Market Garden, which led ...

Operation Market Garden was an attempt to liberate the north of the Netherlands ... But despite initial victories, they did not manage to secure eight bridges crossing the river Rhine. ‘The battle was ...

On June 6, 1944, 22-year-old Victor Nelson was the eighth paratrooper to jump in the blackness covering the coastline of ...

With 2 Para isolated at the Arnhem Bridge and both 1 and 4 Para Brigades thwarted in their attempts to fight their way into Arnhem and falling back what became the Oosterbeek Perimeter started to ...

Ultimately, it was a bridge too far. Follow the fortunes of the British at Arnhem as they desperately attempt to hold out for the advancing forces during Operation Market-Garden.

Aunt Virgie is still a sweetheart to the many she cared for, the multitude she served, and to me, who she still calls her “loving nephew.” ...

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ASHFORD — “Houston County counts on farmers” is more than a slogan for a Dothan chief executive officer who recently spent ...

Following on from the story of Hells Highway the series reaches the battle to seize the great Bridges over two of Europes largest water ways the Maas and the Waal at Nijmegen Here the 82nd US ...