Parachutists commemorate 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands
Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...
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 ...
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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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Allies to remember failed WWII parachute operation
The Hague (AFP) – Veterans and royals gather this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's greatest ... veterans to commemorate Operation Market Garden, the ill-fated ...
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Allies to remember failed WWII parachute operation
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 Dutch bridges and ...
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Operation Market Garden 80th anniversary service Chilbolton
RAF Chilbolton played a major role in World War II, having opened in 1940 ... took off as part of “Operation Market Garden”. The aim was for three Allied airborne divisions to drop into Holland and ...