The Airborne Museum ‘Hartenstein’ in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands is dedicated to the Battle of Arnhem in which the Allied Forces attempted to form a bridgehead on the northern banks of the Rhine river
The Airborne Museum Hartenstein, formerly the Hotel Hartenstein and the HQ of 1st Airborne Division during the Battle of Arnhem.
Major General Roy Urquhart shortly after returning to his Divisional HQ at the Hotel Hartenstein, 19 September.
Airborne Experience in the basement of Hartenstein
Free Information Centre "Airborne at the Bridge", an appendix near the John Frost Bridge in Arnhem
Operation Market Garden
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Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War, fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a salient span
Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein'
…was called was ultimately cancelled. At the behest of Eisenhower, General Lewis Brereton adapted Montgomery's original Operation Comet and renamed it Operation Market Garden. Starting on September 17, 1944 and ending in the morning of September 26. Operation Market Garden failed due to a combination of factors: a lack of…
Paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army descending over the Netherlands
Operation Market Garden
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery
Infantry of 50th (Northumbrian) Division moving up past a knocked-out German 88mm gun near 'Joe's Bridge' over the Meuse-Escaut Canal in Belgium, 16 September 1944