The Prince of Wales joined veterans at the commemorations to the allied assault in the Battleof Arnhem. Veteran Sandy Cortmann, 97, parachuted again over the Dutch city. British, US and Polish ...
They’d soon reach Berlin and the war would be ended within three months. But the Battleof Arnhem turned out to be a tragic failure. Most of the Allies were either killed, taken prisoner or died ...
The Battleof Arnhem fought in the early autumn of 1944 remains without a doubt the most hotly debated battle of the North West European Campaign both then and now From its inception in the ...
About 600 members were stationed in the small village of Somerby, near Melton Mowbray, ahead of the Battleof Arnhem. Alec Wilson, whose father was in the regiment, said one night, annoyed by a ...