Rommel plays with Minatures for D Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRuzjs9T_dw&t=29s
On this day during W.W. 2
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Paratroopers with the US 82nd Airborne Division get last minute instructions at RAF Cottesmore before boarding C-47s for Operation Market Garden - September 17, 1944
US Army Signal Corps - SC 195702
Edgren Photographer
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@captainwalker love the Battle of Arnhem. Read a lot about it .
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Market Garden was today? Nice. If only it had succeeded…
Still a bold, unique, ambitious operation. It’ll always deserve a special place in the history of the Western Front.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato the Germans threw in every unit they could find. Was a perfect reaction , typifying German resilience and faith in their abilities.
The Allies were unlucky in many ways with the bad weather and , in the case of the 1st Para, hampered by the choice of faraway drop zones. -
German Personnel captured by British Airborne Troops near Wolfheze Netherlands during Operation Market Garden - September 17, 1944
IWM - Smith D M (Sgt) Photographer
IWM BU 1166
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USAAF C-47s carrying paratroopers flying over Gheel / Geel, Belgium on their way to Holland for Operation Market Garden - September 17, 1944
IWM - Malindine Photographer
IWM BU 918
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Sounds about right.
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A Piat gun of “C” Troop, 1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron, in position behind a tree covering a road near Wolfheze, 18 September 1944.
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Nice.
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A Sherman tank of the Irish Guards tore up the pavement while making a tight turn in order to take position on a crossroad (Emmastraat / Goudbergstraat) during Operation Market Garden.
18 September, 1944, Waalre, Noord-Brabant, The NetherlandsColourised PIECE of JAKE
Photo: Willem van de Poll
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British Airborne Personnel dug in with their Sten Mk V SMGs at a Brigade Headquarters during Operation Market Garden - September 18, 1944
The Sten Mk V added a wooden pistol grip & stock, and could be fitted with the spike bayonet for the No 4 Enfield. They were of better quality manufacture & finish than the Mk II and Mk III.
IWM - Smith D M (Sgt) Photographer
IWM BU 1143
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Cool!
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British Sergeants J Whawell and J Turl of the Glider Pilot Regiment, search for enemy soldiers in the ULO (Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs) school in Kneppelhoutweg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands - September 20, 1944
IWM - Smith D M (Sgt) Photographer
IWM BU 1100
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Vickers machine-gun teams of 2nd Middlesex Regiment, 3rd Division, fire in support of troops crossing the Maas-Schelde Canal at Sint-Huibrechts-Lille, Belgium - September 20, 1944
IWM - Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 10144
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Stuart VIs (M5A1 Light Tanks) with the British 2nd Armoured Battalion Irish Guards, Guards Armoured Division, during Operation Market Garden - September 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer WWP-PD
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Cromwell tanks of 2nd Welsh Guards crossing the bridge at Nijmegen, 21 September 1944.
Image: IWM (B 10172)
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Today where I live is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Rimini, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy. Its liberation was part of the broader Operation Olive, an attempt by the Allies to break through the Axis-held Gothic Line in Northern Italy. While they experienced multiple tactical victories, the Germans were able to hold out long enough to prevent a decisive breakthrough until winter came. It would not be until 1945 that the Allies would break through the Gothic Line and liberate the rest of Italy.
Rimini was actually liberated by a Greek unit fighting with the British, one major highlight in the Greek military history of the war following the country’s fall in 1941.
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Market Garden commemoration day here, with 99-year old veteran Geoff Roberts.
It’s in Dutch, but the video says it all.
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17-pdr anti-tank gun of the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Guards Armoured Division, covering the approaches to the “Waalbrug” Waal River Bridge in Nijmegen Netherlands - September 21, 1944
Note French Hotchkiss Mle 1914 MG on a tripod and Bren LMG in the foreground
IWM - Midgley, A. N. (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 1017117-pdr anti-tank gun of the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Guards Armoured Division, covering the approaches to the “Waalbrug” Waal River Bridge in Nijmegen Netherlands - September 21, 1944
Note French Hotchkiss Mle 1914 MG on a tripod and Bren LMG in the foreground
IWM - Midgley, A. N. (Sgt) Photographer
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