Operation Market Garden Timeline of Events

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Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time....

Timeline of Events

1944

9.17.1944

World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.

9.25.1944

World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.

9.26.1944

World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.