** 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In September 1944, as part of the massive Operation Market Garden, a combined force of US paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARNHEM, Netherlands — According to historians, several key factors, including inclement weather and ill-placed drop zones, threatened the Allied forces’ success during the 1944 Operation Market Garden ...

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 ...