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NETHERLANDS: Men of the 506th Parachute Infantry regiment, US 101st Airborne, pick through the shattered wreckage of two Hadrian gliders - which were used to drop tens of thousands of troops over enemy lines - that crashed into each other on the landing zone near Son. Two casualties are visible on the ground to the left and right. Inevitably the pilots were often fatalities in this type of collision. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS of a botched military operation which was memorialised in controversial Hollywood blockbuster ???A Bridge Too Far??? have emerged 75 years after the infamous battle. Operation Market Garden, a military maneuverer conducted in September 1944, was supposed to see US and British troops sweep through the battle-weary Nazi forces which were occupying the Netherlands, proceed to liberate Arnhem and its key infrastructure, open a back door into Germany, and bring the war to close by Christmas. This was one of the most audacious and imaginative operations of the war - and it failed. Graphic images show German soldiers laying dead in the street, hundreds of allied paratroops being dropped on Nazi-occupied land unaware that they would be desperately outnumbered and outgunned, and the devastated remains of a Dutch city which served as a battleground for Europe. The striking images are included in military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones??? new book The Battle For Arnhem 1944-1945: Rare photographs from the wartime archives, a dramatic insight into all sides of the remarkable but ill-fated Operation Market Garden which has fascinated historians and been the subject of much controversy ever since. Mediadrumimages/AnthonyTucker-Jones/PenandSwordBooks
2019-04-11
Mediadrumimages/AnthonyTucker-Jo/Media Drum/East News
Media Drum
Mediadrumimages/AnthonyTucker-Jo
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