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.
The Princess Royal has laid a wreath and spoken with veterans at a service commemorating the soldiers who died during the ...
THE skies above Arnhem were full of parachutes again yesterday — 80 years after brave British troops made the same jump ...
More than 700 paratroopers have landed in the same area as their predecessors did as they battled to liberate the Netherlands from the grip of Nazi German tyranny ...
Princess Anne laid a wreath in the Netherlands today to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem.
PUB landlord comic Al Murray has become Lord of the Landings. Murray is now one of the leading experts on the disastrous Battle of Arnhem which is being commemorated today. A book Al has written ...
Some 700 paratroopers took part in the jump, including the Red Devils, the British Army’s freefall parachute display team.
Allied airborne troops entered a Nazi-occupied Netherlands, their descendants paid respects to the bravery of soldiers who ...
Mr Cortmann jumped with a parachutist from the Army's Red Devils display team over the Ginkel Heath nature reserve, to the the north west of Arnhem. "When the fighting started we were just in ...
Events were held in the Netherlands to mark the 80th anniversary of an operation that did not achieve its key objective.
Paratroopers from eight Nato member countries, including the UK, USA, Portugal and Spain, parachuted from 12 aircraft into ...
The Prince of Wales joined veterans at the commemorations to the allied assault in the Battle of Arnhem. Veteran Sandy ... at the former landing zone of Ginkel Heath. Soldiers from the Parachute ...
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