75 Years Ago Today - Operation Market Garden - one of the largest airborne operations in history, ended in failure. The plan involved the seizure of key bridges in the Netherlands by the 101st & 82nd US Airborne Divisions, and 1st British Airborne Division who would land by parachute and glider. LEARN more at our video library with historian Antony Beevor... https://www.c-span.org/video/?454902-1/the-battle-arnhem | American History TV

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25K views · 817 reactions | On this day in history: Operation Market Garden More than 90,000 paratroopers and ground forces pushed through the Netherlands in a two-part operation; Market - airborne and Garden - ground forces, to gain control over key bridges. U.S. Army video by KeSean Johnson | U.S. Army | Facebook

Dutch, French, British, Polish, German, Belgian and American paratroopers commemorate the 74th anniversary of Operation Market Garden – the largest airborne operation in history. This year’s commemoration involves approximately 750 paratroopers from seven different countries participating in a series of airborne operations and events. To this day, generations of Dutch remember the bravery and sacrifice of more than 41,600 troops from the US, UK and Poland who together constituted the Allied Airb

Allied aircraft tow gliders to the Netherlands at the start of Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The largest airborne landing in military history, the operation involved some 35,000 parachute and glider troops who landed in the Netherlands in an attempt to secure crossings across the Rhine as a prelude to an invasion of Germany. © IWM GEN 11 | Imperial War Museum London