Operation Market Garden Pictures

From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230025/Google-Earth-Second-World-War-Amazing-aerial-images-taken-daring-Allies-revealed-Hitlers-weapons.html gliders on a LZ.

 

The drop goes in.

 

The 101st Airborne were there too.

 

The 82nd Airborne Division drops near Grave

 

An RAF glider burns.

 

Men of  1 PARA, 1st (British) Airborne Division, take cover in a shell hole outside Arnhem. 17 September 1944.

 

House clearing for real

 

John Frost, CO of 2 PARA

 

Sherman tanks of the Irish Guards Group advance past others which were knocked out earlier during Operation 'Market-Garden'. 17 September 1944

 

Men of the Wehrmacht on the move

 

Four Waffen SS troopers taken prisoner from 9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion at Arnhem Bridge,18 September 1944; one is a seventeen years old. All of them are wearing the camouflage uniforms that were peculiar to the Waffen SS; these are not 'snipers'.

 

British Airborne in Oosterbeek Four British paratroopers moving through a shell-damaged house in Oosterbeek to which they had retreated after being driven out of Arnhem

 

British PoWs

 

Wehrmacht at Osterbeek

 

British XXX Corps Crossing The Road Bridge At Nijmegen

 

A panoramic view of the city of Nijmegen, Holland, and the Nijmegen Bridge over the Waal (Rhine) River in the background. The city was hit by German and Allied bombardment and shelling., 09/28/1944.

 

Wehrmacht men moving forward.

 

The grave of a British airborne soldier killed during the battle of Arnhem in September 1944, photographed by liberating forces on 15 April 1945. On the cross is written in German „unknown British soldier“. His helmet was not much use.

 

Generals Sosabowski and Browning