RMG384Y9–German paratroopers landing during invasion (near Narvik) Date: 1940
RM2RGCBXA–WW2 - Elverum, Hedmark County, Norway - destruction caused by German advance. in April 1940, Norwegian troops had prevented German paratroopers from capturing Norway's King Haakon, Crown Prince, and the Parliament while the Parliament was meeting (in Elverum - the temporary capital) to issue the Elverum Authorization, authorizing the exiled government. On April 11th, shortly after the government's refusal to submit to German terms, the centre of Elverum was reduced to ashes as can be seen in this stark image.
RMANHYBE–Parachute
RM2M3RKB7–Seventy-eight-year-old John Chandler on the lookout for German paratroopers in Charlwood, Surrey. He was a member of the Local Defence Volunteers (later renamed the 'Home Guard'), despite the upper age limit officially being sixty-five. The L.D.V. was established in 1940 to prepare British citizens for a possible German invasion. 1940
RM2M3NFNW–Drawings showing the front, back and side views of the uniforms worn by German paratroopers. June 1940
RMG37MYC–Parachute
RMAY2PEA–German Paras Norway
RMG3B0AE–Paratroopers in Norway
RM2M99T04–Hendrik van der Horst, verger of the Dutch Reformed Church, climbed with some friends to the top gallery of the bell tower of his church to watch paratroopers and gliders landing over Oosterbeek on the first day of Operation Market Garden. He was killed by a bullet from a German sniper who suspected him of being an observer for the Allies. The Memorial headstone was presented to his relatives on 17 September 1946 by members of the church. The grave is to the right of the stone chapel. It bears a quotation from Job. 'And then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind'.
RM2M99T03–This Dakota, carrying men of 156th Parachute Battalion Machine Gun Platoon, was shot down by German ack ack on 18 September 1944, the second day of Operation Market Garden. The handsome marble Memorial was erected in 2000 by the Adriaanvan Westreemen Stichting and unveiled on 3 May in the presence of the brothers of Privates Thomas Stevens and Henry Philpotts, both named on the bronze plaque which also carries an outline of a Dakota. One soldier survived the crash but died the following day. The American crew were all identified but the 18 British paratroopers on board could not be identifi
RM2M99T2D–The Memorial was designed by H. J. Guse and was erected on 17 September 1981. It commemorates the liberation of Beek on 17 September 1944 by the 508th who were known as the 'Red Devils'. It was the first day of Operation Market Garden. In 'C' Company of the Regiment was First Sergeant Leonard A. Funk who would return to Pennsylvania as the most decorated American paratrooper of the war. The bas relief of a baggy-panted devil originates from an entry in the diary of a German officer who fought against American paratroopers (actually it was the 504th, not the 508th) at Anzio. It read, 'Amer
RM2RGDRH6–A team of paratroopers on 7 June 1944 amuse themselves whilst awaiting the call to take flight in their glider (an Airspeed Horsa) to back up the initial assault phase on the Normandy coast. The chalk slogan reads: 'The Channel stopped you, but not us - now it's our turn. You've had your time you German Schweinhunds'! D-Day began on 6 June 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases û the air assault landing of allied troops followed by an amphibious assault by infantry. The Normandy landings were the largest single-day amphibious actions ever undertaken, involving close to 400,000
RM2M99T1B–The Cornelius Ryan book, 'A Bridge Too Far' has at its centre the final struggle at the bridge at Arnhem, which was indeed a 'Bridge Too Far'. The expression is variously attributed to General 'Boy' Browning and/or the Polish General Sosabowski. The ultimate Allied air target was the bridge at Arnhem, the last step in a step-ladder of bridges spanning successive rivers over which a key road, 'The Corridor', ran from Belgium to the German border. The penultimate bridge in Operation Market Garden was the one here at Nijmegen and was the task of the American 82nd Airborne Division. Some confusion
RMD87MNK–PARACHUTING INTO POLAND
RMDP9W6G–LANDING IN NORWAY
RM2M3PC7P–How to recognise Nazi parachutists: dress, arms and equipment. 1940
RM2M3NMBE–Enemy barrage balloons/planes landing parachutist in large clusters onto an unsuspecting town. Date: 1941
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