Mass Parachute Drop Marks Battle Of Arnhem Anniversary
British troops landed where they had done 75 years before for Operation Market Garden.
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WWII British Paratroopers To Recreate Historic Market Garden Jump Over Arnhem
Personnel from eight allied nations will descend to Arnhem's drop zone, 75 years on from Operation Market Garden.
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WWII Battle Of Arnhem: British WWII Veteran To Parachute Over Dutch City
Mr Cortmann hopes to tandem parachute over Ginkel Heath and land on the same drop zone he jumped on to more than seven decades ago.
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News Veterans Return To The Netherlands To Mark 75 Years Since The Battle of Arnhem
The battle claimed the lives of more than 1500 British soldiers and saw a further 6500 captured.
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WWII Honorary Citizenship For WWII Heroes Who Died Liberating The Netherlands
Over 300 former soldiers will be granted the unique honour by a Dutch town.
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WWII Para Veteran Unveils Operation Market Garden Monument In Arnhem
The Dutch city has been commemorating the 75th anniversary of Op Market Garden, which sought to capture a strategic bridge over the Rhine.
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WWII Operation Market Garden: 75 Years Since One Of The Largest Airborne Operations In History
The objective was to secure a bridge over the Rhine as part of an Allied invasion of Germany.
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Stories How WWII Nearly Ended A Year Early
Read the Forces Network's account of Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne assault in military history.
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WWII 'We Shall Prevail': Military Recreates King George VI's 1939 Speech
Members of the Defence Stammering Network have recreated the speech delivered to the nation when Britain declared war on Nazi Germany.
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WWII New Archive Reveals BBC's Role In Secret Activities During WWII
The BBC's Alexandra Palace transmitters were used as part of an RAF operation to distort the navigating system of Luftwaffe bombers.
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History SS Athenia: The British Passenger Ship Sunk At The Outbreak Of World War Two
Aware of the US casualties, Nazi propaganda portrayed the incident as an act of British sabotage.
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Germany Memorial Marks The Spot WWII RAF Bomber Crew Was Shot Down
Surviving relatives and a former German anti-air battery operator have gathered 76 years on.
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WWII US Military Digs Up Essex Field To Search For WWII Airman's Remains
The airman died after the B-26 bomber he was travelling in crashed and exploded in Essex.
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WWII WWII Bletchley Park Veterans Reunite On 80th Anniversary Of Invasion Of Poland
Veterans reunited at Bletchley Park on the 80th anniversary of the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland, which triggered the Second World War.
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WWII On This Day: Nazi Germany Invades Poland
Eighty years ago, Adolf Hitler led German forces to attack Poland.
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WWII Churchill War Rooms Mark 80th Anniversary
The secret Second World War bunker that changed the course of history.