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

Hundreds of parachutists on Saturday dropped down on a heath near the Dutch town of Ede, following in the footsteps of 2,000 ...

The Hague (AFP) – Veterans and royals gather this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's greatest Allied debacles: an unprecedented but failed airborne operation to seize ...

The plan succeeded in freeing several Dutch ... The 101st Airborne Division, which regularly marks Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands, put a modern twist on its commemorations this year ...

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Britain's Princess Anne will join a handful of remaining veterans to commemorate Operation Market Garden, the ill-fated plan to enter Germany through the ...

Strictly against every security principle and order, a complete copy of the Market Garden Operational Plan was taken into the air and captured, so the Germans knew when and where further drops and ...

Operation Market Garden was an ambitious Allied airborne operation to secure the River Rhine crossings, advance into northern Germany and ultimately shorten the war. If successful, the plan would have ...

Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's Operation Market ...

Sam Edwards has previously received funding from the ESRC, the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the US Army Military History Institute, and the US Naval War College. Sam is a Trustee of The D-Day Story ...