Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning was a British Army officer who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He was also an Olympic bobsleigh competitor, and t
Browning as General Officer Commanding, 1st Airborne Division, October 1942
Daphne du Maurier. Browning was inspired by the graphic depictions of the Cornish coastline in her novel The Loving Spirit.
King George VI inspects an airborne jeep fitted with a Vickers machine gun during a visit to the airborne forces in Southern Command, 21 May 1942, with Browning
Six-man parties of 1st Airborne Division paratroops marching toward General Aircraft Hotspur gliders of the Glider Pilot Exercise Unit RAF at RAF Netheravon in October 1942.
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
Frederick Browning
…World War, Browning commanded the 1st Airborne Division and I Airborne Corps, and was also the deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. During the planning for this operation, it has been suggested that he said: "I think we might be going a bridge too far." In December…
Paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army descending over the Netherlands
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