Things looked promising for the Allies. Following D-Day and the successful invasion of Southern France in Operation Dragoon, Allied soldiers launched an almost unstoppable advance into Nazi-occupied ...

Operation Market Garden commenced on Sept. 17, 1944, with most all of the American airborne forces reaching their designated landing zones and managed to land without much resistance, at first.

Sgt. 1st Class Christine Permenter, a vocalist with the 101st Airborne Division, performs at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the start of Operation Market Garden near Eerde, Netherlands, on ...

Operation Market Garden – the 80th anniversary of which takes place over September 17-25 – has gone down in history as a strategic failure. The brainchild of Field Marshal Bernard Law ...

My first operation was involved with the airborne operation to Arnhem named Market Garden. This involved towing a Horsa glider from Dorset to the drop zone near Arnhem.

Eighty years ago today, as World War II raged in Europe, U.S. Army pilot William Marks flew a glider behind enemy lines into German territory. He was ferrying seven enlisted men and supplies to a bold ...

About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, more than than during the D-Day landings in France two months earlier. The British 1st Airborne Division led the ...