American Rifleman

Operation Market Garden: The Battle Begins

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American Rifleman

Operation Market Garden: 101st Airborne

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The National Interest

Operation Market-Garden Could Have Ended Hitler Forever (But Failed)

On the afternoon of September 17, 1944, the death blow to Hitler’s Germany seemed to blossom in the skies over Holland. It was 75 years ago when two American and one British airborne division landed ...
usace.army.mil

Operation Market Garden veterans retrace their footsteps 81 years later

WIESBADEN, Germany – U.S. Army veterans who bravely fought in World War II participated in commemorative events honoring the 81st anniversary of Operation Market Garden in several cities in the ...
The Aviationist

Take A Look At These Shots Of The Airdrops Performed During Operation “Market Garden” Celebrations in the Netherlands

Each year, waves of paratroopers commemorate Operation Market Garden fought in the Netherlands in September 1944. Operation “Market Garden” is the name of an unsuccessful Allied military operation ...
The National Interest

“A Bridge Too Far”: Why Operation Market Garden Failed To End Nazi Germany

Here’s What You Need to Know: Operation Market-Garden will always be a great what-if. On the afternoon of September 17, 1944, the death blow to Hitler’s Germany seemed to blossom in the skies over ...
Task & Purpose

US troops, NATO allies jump over the Netherlands for 80th anniversary of Market Garden

Eight decades after the Allies jumped into the Netherlands in a failed attempt to seize a path into Germany, hundreds of paratroopers once again descended into Arnhem. Soldiers from more than a dozen ...
FactBytes on MSN

The Boldest Gamble of WWII: Why Market Garden Became a Disaster

In September 1944, the Allies launched the largest airborne assault in history—Operation Market Garden—with dreams of ending the war by Christmas. But hubris, flawed intel, and stiff German resistance ...
Business Insider

76 years ago, the Allies launched the largest airborne attack ever — here's how it all went wrong

In mid-September 1944, things looked great for the Allies. With their foothold in Normandy secured after D-Day and the successful invasion of Southern France in Operation Dragoon, Allied soldiers ...
FactBytes on MSN

A Bridge Too Far: The 1944 Operation That Promised Victory—Then Collapsed

In the fall of 1944, the Allies launched one of the most daring offensives of the war: Operation Market Garden. It was meant ...
BBC

Operation Market Garden, Arnhem, September 1944

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER '44 On 17 September 1944 thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines. Their goal: to secure to bridges across the rivers ...