Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history buffs. British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex ...

Some were issued to the British 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions, some were used on D-Day and and some were used at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden. But in reality very few of those bikes were ...

On the airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day ... Shortly after midnight the British 6th and American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions began landing. On the eastern flank, British ...

We had a very high casualty rate." At least 1,070 members of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne ...