During Operation Market Garden over thirty thousand British and American airborne troops were flown behind enemy lines with the intention of capturing the bridges on the border between Holland and Germany. The huge scale of the operation can be seen from this aerial photograph of gliders on the ground at landing zone Z on September 17th 1944. There are two CD-ROM's available about Operation Market Garden in the World War II Aviation History section
produced from contemporary documents, photographs, battle plans, reports and war diaries held at the Museum of Army Fling in Middle Wallop.
The video below, is live footage from Operation Market Garden, filmed during September 1944.
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