What A Bridge Too Far got right – and wrong – about the Battle of Arnhem
Richard Attenborough’s epic recreation of the doomed Operation Market Garden – in which a lone German soldier walks across ...
Euro Weekly News1d
80 Years since the Battle of Arnhem; “a bridge too far”
Allied airborne troops entered a Nazi-occupied Netherlands, their descendants paid respects to the bravery of soldiers who ...
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Parachute Drop From RAF A400M Marks 80 Years Since Battle of Arnhem
NATO nations have recreated the Second World War airborne invasion of the Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary of ...
Daily Express8d
Heroic pilot who sacrificed his life to save comrades at the Battle of Arnhem 80 years ago
After careful planning, the Battle of Arnhem would finally get under way on Sunday, September 17. The first arrivals on enemy soil were the 21st Independent Parachute Company, who landed at 12 ...
The Mirror4d
Amazing clue that helped identify WW2 hero - 80 years after his death
A WWII hero who died in the Battle of Arnhem was identified by his university tie, it emerged today. Glider pilot Lieutenant Dermod Anderson was laid to rest today, 80 years after he was killed in ...
The Daily Telegraph3d
What A Bridge Too Far got right – and wrong – about the Battle of Arnhem
Was there anything else?” By this point in the film, the fight to control the bridge – the Battle of Arnhem, which was fought 80 years ago – has raged for more than a day, recreated by ...
NL Times1d
Thousands of people expected at Airborne commemoration in Oosterbeek
The British war cemetery in Oosterbeek will commemorate the Allied soldiers who died eighty years ago during Operation Market ...
One of Britain’s last remaining Arnhem survivors, 99, watches as paratroopers fill the skies above the town 80 years on
THE skies above Arnhem were full of parachutes again yesterday — 80 years after brave British troops made the same jump ...