1.7K views · 42 reactions | 75 Years Ago Today - Operation Market Garden - one of the largest airborne operations in history, ended in failure. The plan involved the seizure of key bridges in the Netherlands by the 101st & 82nd US Airborne Divisions, and 1st British Airborne Division who would land by parachute and glider. LEARN more at our video library with historian Antony Beevor... https://www.c-span.org/video/?454902-1/the-battle-arnhem | American History TV | Facebook

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

179K views · 2.1K reactions | (Rare) Operation Market Garden Footage:...