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. The Germans came and we were taken, by train, to Stalag X1B, Near Fallingbostell, Hanover, Germany. Then ...
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 ...
\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 ...
NOT many little boys are christened Percy these days, but you don’t need a fashionable name to be a hero. Because when the chips were down and the bullets were flying, Private Percival William Collett ...
This is a war story that has been written about before in history books — but everyman lived out his part of it in his own way. Deeds of heroism were done, but received little publicity, because none ...
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 ...
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