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The British Airborne Division at Arnhem and Oosterbeek in Holland Men from Nos. 15 & 16 Platoons, 'C' Company, 1st Battalion Border Regiment, waiting in roadside ditches along the Van Lennepweg to repulse an attack by the enemy, who were barely a hundred yards away, Oosterbeek, 21 September.

The British Airborne Division at Arnhem and Oosterbeek in Holland Men of the 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment entering Oosterbeek along the Utrechtsweg on their way towards Arnhem, 18 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 A Sherman Crab flail tank in front of burning buildings in Arnhem, 14 April 1945.

The Second World War 1939 - 1945- the Allied Campaign in North-west Europe June 1944 - May 1945- the British Airborne Division at Arnhem and Oosterbeek in Holland Aerial view of the bridge over the Neder Rijn, Arnhem; British troops and armoured vehicles are visible at the north end of the bridge. Had General Montgomery's ambitious scheme for seizing the Rhine bridges succeeded the war in Europe might have been shortened by many months. In the event, however, back-up forces were unable to come up quickly enough to enable the advanced airborne troops to hold the strategically vital bridge at Arnhem.

Operation 'market Garden' (the Battle For Arnhem)- 17 - 25 September 1944 Arnhem 17 - 25 September 1944: The shattered hull of the building which served for two days as the Headquarters of the 1st (British) Airborne Division.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Cromwell tanks of Guard's Armoured Division drive along 'Hell's Highway' towards Nijmegen during Operation 'Market-Garden', 20 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 17-pdr anti-tank gun of the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Guards Armoured Division, guards the approaches to Nijmegen Bridge, 21 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Sherman tanks of the Irish Guards Group advance past others which were knocked out earlier during Operation 'Market-Garden', 17 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 An American C-47 aircraft, hit by flak returning from the Market-Garden drop, burns after crash-landing into a knocked-out German Jagdpanther in a field near Gheel in Belgium, 17 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 American C-47 aircraft flying over Gheel in Belgium on their way to Holland for Operation 'Market-Garden', 17 September 1944. In the foreground is a knocked-out German Jagdpanther tank destroyer.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Carriers of 1/5th Welch Regiment, 53rd Division, crossing the Meuse into Holland, 20 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 A soldier crouches near a knocked-out German PzKpfw III tank in Oosterhout near Nijmegen, 27 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 A soldier examines the grave of a 1st Airborne Division soldier killed at Arnhem the previous September, 15 April 1945.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 American C-47 aircraft flying over Gheel in Belgium on their way to Holland for Operation 'Market-Garden', 17 September 1944. In the foreground is a knocked-out German Jagdpanther tank destroyer.

Operation 'market Garden' - the Battle For Arnhem, September 1944 A Sherman tank of the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards passes a German PzKpfw III German PzKpfw III tank of Panzer-Kompanie Mielke, Kampfgruppe Knaust (knocked out previously by No. 1 Squadron, Welsh Guards), in Oosterhout near Nijmegen, 24 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 C-47 aircraft carrying airborne troops, seen from Gheel, 19 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Tanks and infantry approaching Asten in Holland, 24 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Sherman tanks and infantry of 8 Corps in Asten, 24 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 1st Airborne soldiers use parachutes to signal to Allied supply aircraft from the grounds of 1st Airborne Division's HQ at the Hartenstein Hotel in Oosterbeek, Arnhem, 23 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 The northern end of the bridge over the River Maas at Grave, 25 September 1944.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 The grave of a British soldier who was killed during Operation Market Garden in 1944, lies alongside the wreckage of his jeep near Arnhem, 18 April 1945.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 The grave of a British airborne soldier killed during the battle of Arnhem in September 1944, photographed by liberating forces on 15 April 1945.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Churchill AVRE in Arnhem, 13 April 1945.

The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 A Universal carrier being loaded aboard a Buffalo prior to being transported across the River Ijssel at Arnhem, 13 April 1945.