Operation Market Garden remembered on 80th anniversary
Hundreds of parachutists on Saturday dropped down on a heath near the Dutch town of Ede, following in the footsteps of 2,000 ...
Events were held in the Netherlands to mark the 80th anniversary of an operation that did not achieve its key objective.
Operation Market Garden, which spanned nine days ... the Allies failed to secure the final bridge at Arnhem and were forced to retreat. An estimated 17,000 Allied troops were killed, wounded ...
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 ...
the rescue of British paratroopers cut off after the withdrawal from Arnhem. The aftermath of Operation Market Garden occupies a complicated place in Dutch memory. Allied troops were welcomed ...