1.7K views · 115 reactions | Allied aircraft tow gliders to the Netherlands at the start of Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The largest airborne landing in military history, the operation involved some 35,000 parachute and glider troops who landed in the Netherlands in an attempt to secure crossings across the Rhine as a prelude to an invasion of Germany. © IWM GEN 11 | Imperial War Museum London | Facebook

1.2M views · 43K reactions | Allied forces land in the Netherlands at the start of Operation Market Garden, September 1944. See more images from the operation here: https://bit.ly/3Es8Pw9 Film: IWM COI 2 | Imperial War Museum London | Facebook

90K views · 1.9K reactions | 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 | Facebook