31 items in this album on 2 pages.

Horsa gliders litter Landing Zone Members of the 82nd Airborne Division having their gear checked by the jumpmaster for the last time before entering their C-47 Dakotas for the Market Garden operation at Cottesmore airfield, England, 17 Sep 1944Men of Headquarters Artillery Group of UK 1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron landing near Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944; note the two collided Horsa gliders in backgroundNevada underway off the US Atlantic coast while en route from New York to Norfolk, Virginia, 17 Sep 1944
Horsa gliders litter Landing Zone 'S' near Arnhem, Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden, Sep 17, 1944. Note that some of the gliders are burning.Members of the 82nd Airborne Division having their gear checked by the jumpmaster for the last time before entering their C-47 Dakotas for the Market Garden operation at Cottesmore airfield, England, 17 Sep 1944Men of Headquarters Artillery Group of UK 1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron landing near Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944; note the two collided Horsa gliders in backgroundNevada underway off the US Atlantic coast while en route from New York to Norfolk, Virginia, 17 Sep 1944
Paratroopers of 1st Allied Airborne Army over the skies of the Netherlands, Sep 1944Paratroopers of 1st Allied Airborne Army receiving a final briefing before embarking on Operation Market Garden, 17 Sep 1944Reconnaissance aerial photo showing British Horsa and Hamilcar gliders on Landing Zone Reconnaissance photograph showing Dakota aircraft dropping paratroopers of 1st Airborne Brigade on to Dropping Zone
Paratroopers of 1st Allied Airborne Army over the skies of the Netherlands, Sep 1944Paratroopers of 1st Allied Airborne Army receiving a final briefing before embarking on Operation Market Garden, 17 Sep 1944Reconnaissance aerial photo showing British Horsa and Hamilcar gliders on Landing Zone 'Z' near Wolfheze woods, west-north-west of Arnhem, Operation Market I, 17 Sep 1944Reconnaissance photograph showing Dakota aircraft dropping paratroopers of 1st Airborne Brigade on to Dropping Zone 'X', at Renkum, west of Arnhem, Operation Market I, 17 Sep 1944
Sherman tanks of the UK Irish Guards Group advancing past Sherman tanks knocked out in previous actions, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944SSM William Parkes of British No. 3 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured) Irish Guards dead on his M4 Sherman tank, near Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944Wing Commander G. E. Harrison of 190 Squadron RAF recounting Operation Market I glider towing mission to Group Captain A. H. Wheeler, Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, 17 Sep 1944
Sherman tanks of the UK Irish Guards Group advancing past Sherman tanks knocked out in previous actions, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944SSM William Parkes of British No. 3 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured) Irish Guards dead on his M4 Sherman tank, near Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944Wing Commander G. E. Harrison of 190 Squadron RAF recounting Operation Market I glider towing mission to Group Captain A. H. Wheeler, Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, 17 Sep 1944

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