Bob Jimenez, a retired Tucson police officer and former U.S. Army paratrooper, took part in a special commemorative parachute jump over the Netherlands.

Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of World War II’s most daring — but ultimately unsuccessful — missions,

The airdrop is one of several events organised to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious military offensive designed to speed up the invasion of Nazi Germany and shorten the war in Europe. Among those who parachuted into the Netherlands were 1,900 allied airborne soldiers from Britain's 4th Parachute Brigade.

Operation Market Garden aimed to push through the Netherlands and into Germany just a few months after the D-Day landings.

Eighty years ago today, as World War II raged in Europe, U.S. Army pilot William Marks flew a glider behind enemy lines into German territory. He was ferrying seven enlisted

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Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved "A Bridge too Far.

Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's Operation Market Garden. Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's Operation Market Garden.

Eighty years ago, on this very weekend, Operation Market Garden was underway in this region of the Netherlands. An ambitious joint airborne and ground

Hundreds of American and allied military personnel recreated the paratrooper jumps and river crossings of the failed World War II operation.