OPERATION MARKET GARDEN 2008
British 1st Airborne Division The 1st Airborne was formed on October 31, 1941. Its units saw action in North Africa, Sicily and Italy before returning to England in 1943. In 1944, 1st Airborne Division was a reserve unit during Operation Overlord. After D-Day [More]
US 82nd Airborne Division On August 15, 1942, the 82nd Infantry Division became the first airborne division in the U.S. Army, and was re designated the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1943 the Division participated in the airborne drops on Sicily and Salerno. In 1944 [More]
Polish Airborne Brigade The 1st (Polish) Independent Parachute Brigade was a parachute brigade under command of Maj.Gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski, created in Scotland in September 1941 with the exclusive mission to drop into occupied Poland in order to help [More]
Spanhoe & 315th TCG Built in 1943 with the original name of Wakerley, Spanhoe Airfield is located between the villages of Harringworth and Laxton. Local people also knew the airfield as Harringworth as part of the site lay in that Parish. [More]