This video has been removed for rights reasons. Commemorations have been held to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden during World War Two, near Arnhem in the Netherlands.

Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Operation ... Market Garden — one of World ...

It was codenamed Operation Market Garden. About 10,600 Commonwealth servicemen took part, but only 2,400 returned. Pilot Jim Hooper was one of thousands captured by German forces. Video shows the ...

By Duncan Anderson. How Operation Market Garden could have shortened the war by six months - and why it failed at the last moment. By Mark Fielder. Labour's landslide in the 1945 general election ...

Bolesław Ostrowski, who has died aged 105, was freed from a Soviet slave labour camp in Western Siberia; then, having trained with Polish forces as a paratrooper, he took part in Operation Market ...