Bob Jimenez, a retired Tucson police officer and former U.S. Army paratrooper, took part in a special commemorative parachute ...

Bob Jimenez, a retired Tucson police officer and former U.S. Army paratrooper, took part in a special commemorative parachute ...

Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...

Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's Operation Market ...

The airdrop is one of several events organised to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious military ...

Operation Market Garden aimed to push through the Netherlands and into Germany just a few months after the D-Day landings.

Anniversary of Operation Market Garden in Hastings, East Sussex, on September 22 2024. Photos by Roberts Photographic.

Local mayor Rene Verhulst called the heath near Arnhem a place "where 80 years ago courage, sacrifice and hope came together in the shape of the airborne landings during Operation Market Garden.

Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned ...

21, commemorating the same jumps done by the Allies 80 years ago during Operation Market Garden. The jumps culminated a week of memorial events for the mission, a failed attempt during World War ...