Operation Market Garden was an attempt to liberate the north of the Netherlands from the Nazis in September 1944, which ultimately failed with great loss of life among the allied forces. Some 35,000 ...

British, US and Polish forces dropped behind enemy lines in 1944 but failed in their ... who had landed in the town during Operation Market Garden. Mr Cortmann, from Aberdeen, made a tandem ...

Operation Market Garden, the September 1944 British-led invasion of the Netherlands by Allied paratroopers, was famously a failure—one usually chalked up to the revelation of the plan to the ...

Isle of Man Post Office The second part of the stamp set depicting Operation Market Garden Half of the set depicts the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944, which saw 156,000 allied forces troops land ...