Hundreds of paratroopers from several NATO member countries, Germany included, dropped out of clear skies over a heath in the ...

The BBC World Service hears from Hetty Bischoff van Heemskerck, a young Dutch woman from the city of Arnhem, who watched the Allied paratroopers come down.

While the operation succeeded in capturing the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen, it failed in its key objective – securing the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem. Modern-day paratroopers from ...

Video: WW2 heroes are honoured as 700 paratroopers drop from the sky to ... Netherlands in an attempt to capture the bridges at Arnhem, their contemporary equivalents will drop ...

Paratroopers from the Dutch Air Mobile Brigade ... Local mayor Rene Verhulst called the heath near Arnhem a place “where 80 years ago courage, sacrifice and hope came together in the shape ...

In September the same year the largest airborne assault in history saw more than 8,600 British, US and Polish paratroopers, land in Arnhem in an attempt to seize strategic bridges in the Netherlands.

When a solitary Russian tank fitted with anti-drone cage armor and a front-mounted mine-roller approached the Ukrainian paratroopers, apparently on Friday, the paratroopers fired an American-made ...

Some 700 paratroopers took part in the jump, including the Red Devils, the British Army’s freefall parachute display team. The event commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, part of ...

The paratroopers and their supporting drone units have knocked out potentially dozens of Russian vehicles—first, factory-fresh BMP-3s. And then, as the modern BMP-3s began to run out ...

While the operation succeeded in capturing the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen, it failed in its key objective – securing the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem. Modern-day paratroopers from ...