‘The Traitor of Arnhem’ Review: Mole in the Market Garden
An audacious Allied plan in 1944 had the potential to swiftly end the war in Europe. German forces got advance warning from ...
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US Army Gliders And Their Importance In WWII
Later, beginning on September 17, 1944, gliders flew 300 miles to their landing zones in support of Operation Market-Garden. The glider operation was successful in delivering its airborne troops ...
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75 years since Operation Market Garden marked by veterans and royalty
Operation Market Garden was an attempt to liberate the north of the Netherlands ... Some 35,000 British, US and Polish forces were dropped by parachute and glider behind enemy lines in an effort to ...
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Raymond Whitwell, soldier who escaped from France in 1940 after commandeering a train at gunpoint
In September 1944 he took part in Operation Market Garden, the attempt to establish a bridgehead over the Rhine and an invasion route into Germany. He flew in a glider carrying a jeep and a ...
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Nato troops commemorate 80 years since Operation Market Garden
Operation Market Garden - which has been immortalised by ... Unlike the D-Day invasion, where gliders and paratroopers dropped directly onto crucial bridges behind the invasion beaches under ...