The events at the Battle of Arnhem were portrayed in Richard Attenborough's 1977 Hollywood war epic A Bridge Too Far starring Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.

A small group of World War II veterans and a crowd of some 60,000 ... who flew in on a two-man glider and was among those ...

September 1944 The Battle of Arnhem was one of the most audacious but ultimately controversial battles of the Second World War Airborne drops in Holland were to secure important bridges on the ...

Princess Anne has led tributes to the WWII heroes who fought in the ... Independent Parachute Brigade would drop into Arnhem ...

World War II lived up to its name ... In September 1944 he was dropped into the Battle of Arnhem—a failed Allied attempt to secure a bridge over the Rhine River. “They told us it would ...

The key to success would rest on the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Ultimately, it was a bridge too far. Follow the fortunes of the British at Arnhem as they desperately attempt to hold ...

Sir Alec Guinness starred in this tour de force WWII film as Colonel Nicholson, a British POW who, with his unit, is tasked with building a railway bridge across the river Kwai in occupied Burma ...

A WW2 veteran, whose parachute jump to mark the ... He was just 22 when he parachuted near Arnhem in 1944, before being taken prisoner by the Germans. The events in 1944 were immortalised in ...

The Arnhem 1980 Paralympic Games served to consolidate the sports programmes of the four major impairment groups. Their respective international sport federations were represented simultaneously in ...

One of the soldiers involved, 99-year-old Geoff Roberts, was among 12 World War II veterans present ... Allies failed to hold a key bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem in a battle immortalized ...

To identify the major World War II battles with the most casualties, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed WWII battles from World War 2 Facts, an online database of WWII battles.

Marine John Kinsel Sr., one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II, has died. He was remembered Wednesday in a procession of more than 120 vehicles ...