40K views · 879 reactions | On this day 75 years ago Operation Market Garden was launched with the intent of clearing a path for Allied troops into the German industrial heartland. This was a huge operation involving a mix of airborne and ground troops, aimed at taking a number of key bridges near Eindhoven, Nijmegen and the ultimate goal, Arnhem. | Royal Air Force | Facebook

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

OPERATION MARKET GARDEN - BATTLE OF ARNHEM Corporal Gordon Bates from 1 Airlanding Recce Squadron. (Oosterbeek, Utrechtseweg, 18 September 1944. Operation Market Garden. From a film - saved for just this kind of occasion - made by the Monné family living in Oosterbeek. #WW2 #HISTORY) | British & Commonwealth Forces