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Step back in time with these 28 rare and powerful photos from Operation Market Garden, one of the most ambitious military operations of World War II. Taken during the fall of 1944, these images provide a gripping look at the daring Allied airborne operation that aimed to break through German lines. Experience the bravery, chaos, and sacrifice of soldiers in one of the war’s most intense campaigns.
Major General James M. Gavin suiting up for the Operation ‘Market Garden’ jump
September 17th, 1944
British paratroopers of the 1st Airborne Division in their aircraft during the flight to Arnhem
September 25th, 1944
Paratroopers drop from Dakota aircraft over the outskirts of Arnhem
September 17th, 1944
Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroopers land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army
September 17th, 1944
The 101st Airborne drops into occupied Netherlands
September 17th, 1944
British Airborne Forces in the Netherlands going into action after their landing during Operation Market Garden
September, 1944
The 82nd Airborne Division drops near Grave
September 17th, 1944
101st Airborne on the streets of Eindhoven
September, 1944
Dutch civilians dance in the streets after the liberation of Eindhoven by the US 101st Airborne Division
September 18th 1944
The 1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron in position behind a tree covering a road near Wolfheze
September 18th, 1944
Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, who just jumped in to the Netherlands, assess the wreckage of a Glider, during Operation Market Garden
September 17, 1944
‘Gallipoli II’, a 6-pdr anti-tank gun of No. 26 Anti-Tank Platoon, 1st Border Regiment, 1st Airborne Division, in action in Oosterbeek
September 20th, 1944
A convoy of lorries under enemy artillery and mortar fire on the road between Son and Eindhoven
September 20th, 1944
Aerial view of the bridge over the Neder Rijn, Arnhem; British troops and armored vehicles are visible at the north end of the bridge
September 18th, 1944
Cromwell tanks of 2nd Welsh Guards crossing the bridge at Nijmegen
September 21st, 1944
Four Waffen SS troopers taken prisoner
September 18th, 1944
A Sherman Firefly tank of the Irish Guards Group advances past Sherman tanks knocked out earlier during Operation ‘Market-Garden’
September 17th, 1944
DUKWs transport supplies across the River Waal at Nijmegen
September, 1944
Nijmegen after the battle
September 28th, 1944
A Dutch school damaged by mortar fire, being searched for German snipers by Sergeant J. Whawell and Sergeant J. Turrell of the Glider Pilot Regiment
September 20th, 1944
British tanks cross the road bridge
Nijmegen, 1944
British paratroopers in Oosterbeek
September 17th, 1944
Burning British Horsa glider
September, 1944
SS Troops advancing on bicycles
September, 1944
German soldiers at Arnhem
September 1944
A British 17-pounder anti tank gun protects the road embankment on ‘The Island’, North of the Nijmegen road bridge
September 30th, 1944
Infantry of the 50th Division moving up past a knocked-out German 88mm gun near ‘Joe’s Bridge’ over the Meuse-Escaut Canal in Belgium
September 16th, 1944
