The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

Operation Varsity was the largest single airborne operation in history, when more than 16,000 men were dropped into western ...

After Mr Neal's brother died, he used that research and his own to tell their uncle's story in a book By Glider to Normandy ...

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

80 years ago this weekend several Allied armies staged massive, different crossings of the Rhine. It was part of major pushes past the last defenses at the German border. The Battle of the Bulge ...

Germany revived river Rhine from toxic ruin. Can Delhi do the same for the Yamuna, or will the river remain a toxic casualty ...

"It was the battle that ended the war ... pictured on 25 March 1945, crossed the Rhine with the First Canadian Army and the US 9th Army and joined up with Varsity's airborne troops Mr Bullock ...

He suffered his worst defeat in battle during his September 1944 attempt to cross the Rhine River at the Dutch city of Arnhem. Six thousand airborne Allied troops were lost in the failed effort.

Omar Bradley, who had distinguished himself leading troops to victories in North Africa and Sicily, was hand-picked by General Dwight Eisenhower to command the 1st U.S. Army during the D-Day ...