Parachute drop near Arnhem marks 80 years since Operation Market Garden

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Airborne units from eight Nato nations participate in commemoration of ill-fated second world war manoeuvre

Paratroopers from eight Nato-member countries, including the UK, US, Portugal and Spain, parachuted from 12 aircraft into Ginkel Heath, a nature reserve near the Dutch town of Ede, on Saturday.

The event commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden, a manoeuvre intended to create a route for the allied forces into northern Germany in September 1944. The plan involved seizing key bridges with a combination of airborne forces – known as Market – with land forces – Garden – joining them.

While the operation succeeded in capturing the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen, it failed in its key objective – securing the bridge at Arnhem.

 

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