Mark Fielder discovers how Operation Market Garden could have shortened World War Two by six months, and how the plan failed at the last moment. In May 1945 it was the Russians who hoisted their flag ...

Yet German resistance was stiffening on both fronts. The manpower barrel was still ­subject to scrapings, such as the creation of the 1st Parachute Army in The Netherlands, comprising Luftwaffe ...

On Sept. 17, 1944, American and British forces launched Operation Market Garden, the largest combined ground and air operation ever attempted. After the Allies had broken out from Normandy, the ...

75 years after the infamous Battle of Arnhem, rare photos reveal terrifying death and destruction as allied troops struggle to liberate Netherlands from the Nazis. Memorialised in the Hollywood ...

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 ...

Stories categorised in 'Arnhem 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes. There were stories in the newspaper we could now afford to buy about black-clad Romans bombing the... Lt ...

\This is the tragic story of the last bridge in the ill-fated Operation Market-Garden, and features rare newsreel footage of the Allied operation that was supposed to end World War Two in 1944.

The ultimate sacrifice of a soldier who jumped in front of a grenade to save a mother and her son has been revealed 75 years later. Private Albert Willingham gave his life during the Battle of Arnhem ...

Stories categorised in 'Arnhem 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes. The Germans came and we were taken, by train, to Stalag X1B, Near Fallingbostell, Hanover, Germany. Then ...