** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** In September 1944, Allied forces ...

CRESTVIEW — "German troops seen near Spanish Trail Park in Crestview, Allied troops move to engage" is probably what a headline from the Northwest Florida Daily News would be if this were real.

Paratroopers from the Dutch Air Mobile Brigade and 12 other NATO nations took part in a series of jumps over Ginkel Heath, watched by a small group of World War II veterans and some 60,000 spectators.

Operation Market Garden aimed to leap across the Rhine, seize key bridges and force a rapid end to the war. Instead, scattered landings, destroyed crossings and determined German defenses stalled the ...

WASHINGTON -- Shortly after the invasion of Normandy and the liberation of Paris during World War II, Allied forces in Europe wanted to create an invasion route into northern Germany from the ...

Hundreds of paratroopers from several NATO member countries, Germany included, dropped out of clear skies over a heath in the Netherlands near the city of Arnhem on Saturday. The spectacle was part of ...

GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands (AP) — 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 ...

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 Montgomery, this ...

ARNHEIM, NETHERLANDS — Thousands of people looked up to the clouds as several dozen paratroopers of various allied nations floated down from the sky during one of the many airborne jumps conducted ...

The largest airborne operation in American history began with seven daysAca,!a,,c notice. The Allies had hit the German army hard since D-Day and pushed it back to the German border. British Field ...

Spectators watch a mass parachute drop at Ginkel Heath, eastern Netherlands, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019, as part of commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an ultimately ...