The Princess Royal has laid a wreath and spoken with veterans at a service commemorating the soldiers who died during the Battle of Arnhem 80 years ago. Princess Anne and her husband, Vice Admiral ...

The Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden, was a manoeuvre intended to create a route for Allied forces into northern Germany in September 1944.

On September 17, 1944, they flew in gliders into Arnhem as part of Field Marshal Montgomery’s plan to seize and hold a 64-mile corridor from Eindhoven in southern Holland to Arnhem.

Final act: Arnhem veterans pay respects on 80th anniversary September 22, 2024 Gordon Darroch Geoff Roberts, 99, one of the last surviving veterans of the Battle of Arnhem, at Oosterbeek cemetery.

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 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.

Eighty years after thousands of Allied airborne troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in a daring military offensive their modern counterparts have made the same jump. Paratroopers ...