25K views · 817 reactions | On this day in history: Operation Market Garden More than 90,000 paratroopers and ground forces pushed through the Netherlands in a two-part operation; Market - airborne and Garden - ground forces, to gain control over key bridges. U.S. Army video by KeSean Johnson | U.S. Army | Facebook

Allied forces land in the Netherlands at the start of Operation Market Garden, September 1944. See more images from the operation here: https://bit.ly/3Es8Pw9 Film: IWM COI 2 | Imperial War Museum London

Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the start of Operation Market Garden, a failed attempt to hasten the end of the Second World War that has become a touchstone for the fighting spirit and determination of airborne forces. On Sunday 17th September 1944 some 40,000 British, American and Polish troops of the First Allied Airborne Army landed behind enemy lines to capture a string of river crossings and allow tanks to thrust across the River Rhine in to Germany. However, strong resistance prevente

1.7K views · 115 reactions | Allied aircraft tow gliders to the Netherlands at the start of Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The largest airborne landing in military history, the operation involved some 35,000 parachute and glider troops who landed in the Netherlands in an attempt to secure crossings across the Rhine as a prelude to an invasion of Germany. © IWM GEN 11 | Imperial War Museum London | Facebook