US troops, NATO allies jump over the Netherlands for 80th anniversary of Market Garden
Hundreds of American and allied military personnel recreated the paratrooper jumps and river crossings of the failed World War II operation.
Operation Market Garden commemorated with paratroopers in Ede, Dutch king to attend
Eighty years after the landing of the airborne troops in September 1944, which was part of the Allied liberation operation Market Garden, the events will be commemorated on the Ginkelse Heide near Ede.
Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to commemorate World War II operation
Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary Operation Market Garden
Solemn Ceremony Marks End Of Failed WWII Parachute Drop Commemorations
Britain's Princess Anne and hundreds of children laid flowers Sunday in memory of those who died 80 years ago during one of World War II's most audacious airborne operations: a plan to seize Dutch bridges and forge a path into Nazi Germany.
Hundreds of parachutists jump to mark WWII operation
Hundreds of parachutists on Saturday dropped down on a heath near the Dutch town of Ede, following in the footsteps of 2,000 Allied soldiers 80 years ago. This included the solemn reburial of two Allied soldiers who died at the time,
Parachutists commemorate 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands
Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Operation
Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden
Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned ...
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101st Airborne troops land in the Netherlands in tribute to Allied operation 80 years ago
American airborne troops stormed out of their helicopters and took cover in some of the same fields where Allied troops took ...
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Fond du Lac WWII hero's artifacts find a home at Wisconsin Veterans Museum
On Sept. 17, the museum will open a new display featuring objects of James Megellas, a Fond du Lac native who is considered the most-highly decorated officer in the 82nd Airborne. A 1942 ROTC ...
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Grondahl: Group visits Dutch sister city 80 years after WWII liberation
Four generations after 48 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division died on Sept. 20, 1944 in an assault against ...
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History: 82nd Airborne cavalry units at Fort Liberty case colors indefinitely
FORT LIBERTY — Cavalry units in the 82nd Airborne Division have started ... and participated in campaigns from World War II to the current Operation European Assure, Deter, and Reinforce ...
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Operation Market Garden Nijmegen
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 ...
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Paratroopers project gets £150,000 lottery funding
Thousands of airborne soldiers flew from airfields around Grantham in 1944 to take part in the D-Day invasion of France and Operation Market Garden in ... of the US 82nd Airborne Division ...
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82nd Airborne paratrooper dies in Louisiana training accident
Matthew Perez, a paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne Division, died from injuries sustained during a training event at the Joint Readiness Training Center. A paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne ...
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Mobile paratrooper veteran to make his 50th static line jump in Normandy for 80th D-Day Anniversary
One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad commanded the 82nd Airborne Division 3rd ... Naples and ...