Jumping in to Drop Zones eight to ten miles from Arnhem on the second day of Operation Market Garden was always going to be difficult for Brigadier Shan Hacketts 4th British Parachute Brigade With ...
"First published in Great Britain as Arnhem : the Battle for the Bridges, 1944"--Title page verso. NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents The chase is on! -- ...
In mid-September 1944 a mixed force of around 10,000 British and Polish airborne troops dropped on and around the town of Arnhem in The Netherlands as part of the Allies’ Operation Market Garden. The ...
On The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II, by Antony Beevor. By World War II standards, Arnhem was not a particularly large engagement. Total British, American, and ...
Early in the afternoon of Sept. 17, 1944, the sky over the Netherlands filled with aircraft. Before long hundreds of gliders and thousands of paratroopers were descending on drop zones in a great ...
An appeal for people to send cards to a World War Two veteran to celebrate his 100th birthday has been launched by his ...
A HERO medic who was captured at the disastrous Battle of Arnhem because he refused to leave wounded soldiers he was treating has died aged 96. Staff Sergeant Peter Clarke OBE set up an ad-hoc aid ...
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