Sentence examples for operation market from inspiring English sources

After that he went through Belgium; and then to Nijmegen as a part of operation Market Garden.

Or, in reference to veterans reluctant to strike: "Going to the mattresses over working conditions was like the failed Operation Market Garden of 1944 — a bridge too far".

Moore and Wright went on to save lives for the rest of the war, from Operation Market Garden to the Battle of the Bulge.

Director: Richard Attenborough Entertainment grade: D History grade: A– Operation Market Garden was a daring attempt by allied forces to push into northern Germany in 1944.

"In World War II, he made four combat jumps into hostile fire: at Sicily, Salerno, on D-Day in Normandy and in Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands," Colonel Camp said.

Occupied by the Germans during World War II, it was the object of Operation Market Garden, a heroic but unsuccessful attempt by American, British, and Polish airborne troops to secure the Rhine bridges in September 1944.

In September of the following year, he crash-landed in a glider behind enemy lines with the 101st Airborne on the first day of Operation Market Garden, and was under heavy artillery fire and bombs near Eindhoven for days afterward.

Allied troops are about to embark on the ill-fated Operation Market-Garden mission in Holland.

However, after the end of Operation Market-Garden the division was shipped to France and then Belgium to fight in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge.

Although attached to XVIII Airborne Corps, the division was not chosen to participate in Operation Market-Garden, a large-scale airborne operation intended to seize several bridges through the Netherlands to allow the Allied armies to bypass the Rhine river and enter Germany.

Notable examples include a C-47 Skytrain which flew with the 316th Troop Carrier Group and participated in three major Second World War airborne operations; the June 1944 Normandy landings, Operation Market Garden and Operation Varsity, the airborne crossing of the River Rhine in March 1945.