Chapter 2 had set out the two requirements for success over which Montgomery had no control: weak German resistance and good weather. Chapter 3 demonstrated conclusively the fallacy of the first when, ...

On 17 September 1944, the British First Airborne Army, also incorporating American and Polish troops, launched an attack on major bridges in Holland, most memorably at Arnhem. This bore the name ...

Direct RAF support for Market Garden started on the night of 16/17 September 1944, when 200 Lancasters and 23 Mosquitoes of 1 and 8 Groups, Bomber Command, based in England, bombed 4 Luftwaffe ...

The Royal Air Force Museum is thrilled to announce its new partnership with Virgin Atlantic, naming the esteemed airline as the Museum’s official airline partner. The collaboration between the RAF ...

On the narrow corridor that would carry the armoured drive, there were five major bridges to take. They had to be seized intact by airborne assault. It was the fifth, the crucial bridge over the Lower ...

The Battle of Britain normally conjures up images of Spitfires and Hurricanes creating vapour trails across an azure sky but by night, Bomber Command was active – and taking more casualties than ...

Operation Market Garden, the Allied airborne assault on The Netherlands, was launched on 17 September 1944 in an attempt to capture Arnhem and cross the River Rhine – the last natural barrier ...

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