Story by Airman 1st Class Regan Enriquez | 86th Airlift Wing | 09.18.2023
EINDHOVEN AIR BASE, Netherlands – Nearly 80 years after World War II, onlookers gathered at Eindhoven Air Base on September 16, 2023, to watch a memorial flight that captured the spirit of valor and sacrifice that defined one of the war's boldest airborne operations, Operation Market Garden....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Jacob Connor | 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) | 09.17.2022
A day of fog and light rain overhead did not stop nearly 500 guests from coming to 501st Parachute Regiment Geronimo monument for a remembrance ceremony in Eerde, Netherlands Sept. 17, 2022, to pay tribute to the sacrifices made during Operation “Market Garden”. Rain started coming down as the Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) gathered in......
Story by Capt. Nadine Wiley De Moura | 100th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.18.2021
ARNHEM, Netherlands--- Participants from 12 NATO allied forces and local citizens paid homage to the 77th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden by gathering at a series of drop zones across the Netherlands and Belgium to observe one thousand Soldiers parachuting from U.S. Air Force C-130s and allied force aircrafts during Falcon Leap, NATOs largest technical Airborne exercise Sept. 11-19,......
Story by Pfc. Michael Ybarra | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.23.2019
2019 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, a pivotal operation that liberated many towns and villages in the Netherlands....
Story by Staff Sgt. Christopher Jelle | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.18.2019
BERG EN DAL, Netherlands – Nine silhouettes bloomed out from the rear of an aircraft and drifted toward the soil of a small field outside the town of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The descending figures belonged to the 11th Air Mobile Brigade of the Dutch Army and carried something special to be presented in honor of two men who had made the same descent 75 years ago. The Netherlands’......