Operation Market Garden, Netherlands

Collectie / Archief: Fotocollectie Spaarnestad Onderwerpen Reportage / Serie: Arnhem, Slag bij - Sept. 1944 (inclusief de uiteindelijke inname April 1945) Beschrijving: British paratroops fill a C-46 transport plane to land with the First Allied Airborne Army on enemy-held Holland. Annotatie: Volgens IWM beschrijving een C-47 [K 7570] Datum: 1944-09-17 Trefwoorden: oorlogen, oorlog Fotograaf: War Office Auteursrechthebbende: Publiek Domein Materiaalsoort: Foto (zwart/wit) Nummer toegang: 7.000SPAond Inventarisnummer: 24023 Bestanddeelnummer: 24023_100

Branden op de Ginkelse Heide bij Ede tijdens de luchtlandingen op 18 september 1944. Let op de eenzame glider die richting Wolfheze daalt.

Men of HQ Troop of 1st Airlanding Brigade Reconnaissance Squadron at Wolfheze on the outskirts of Arnhem, 18 September 1944. The man on the left is manning a PIAT .

Airspeed Horsas Arnhem 1944 2

A fleet of Allied aircraft flies overhead as paratroopers of the Allied Airborne Command float groundward in the invasion of the Netherlands, still another step towards the liberation of Europe. September 17, 1944. Tischler, Air Transport Command. (Army) NARA FILE #: 111-SC-210047 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1065

A member of the PAN (Partisan Action Netherlands) guides British troops to German positions near Valkenswaard, 25 September 1944. A member of the PAN (Partisan Action Netherland) helps British troops 'winkle out' stray Germans, near Valkenswaard, 25 September 1944.

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A Vickers machine-gun team of 5th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 59th (Staffordshire) Division in position in a field of corn at Someren in Holland, 21 September 1944. A Vickers machine-gun team of 7th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 59th (Staffordshire) Division in position in a field of corn at Someren in Holland, 21 September 1944.

A carrier crew of 8th Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in Holland, 22 September 1944. A carrier crew of 8th Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in Holland, 22 September 1944.

American C-47 aircraft flying over Gheel in Belgium on their way to Holland for Operation 'Market-Garden' , 17 September 1944. American C-47 aircraft flying over Gheel in Belgium on their way to Holland for Operation 'Market-Garden' , 17 September 1944.

Brig. Gen. Anthony C. Mcauliffe, artillery commander of the 101st Airborne Division, gives his various glider pilots last-minute instructions in England on Sept. 18, 1944, before the take-off on D-Day plus 1.

A convoy of Allied lorries under enemy artillery and mortar fire on the road between Son and Eindhoven, Holland, 20 September 1944. In the foreground American paratroopers shelter in a ditch. A convoy of lorries under enemy artillery and mortar fire on the road between Son and Eindhoven, 20 September 1944. In the foreground American paratroopers shelter in a ditch.