Iconic footage. (Operation Market Garden. #WW2 #HISTORY)

(Operation Market Garden.) 0845 19 September: 30 Corps contacts 82 Airborne Division at Nijmegen, the Waal Bridge is firmly in German hands. 1730 20 September: Waal Bridge is finally captured. Morning 21 September: Frost at the Rhine Bridge in Arnhem, surrenders.

#OTD in 1944, Hadfield. All together. (From left to right: Beryl Ackley, Sarah Jackson, Phyllis Bowen and Gene Kane, 15 year-old fibre tube winders.) #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1918, Méaulte area, France. Whippet tanks captured by the Germans and recaptured by the British. #WW1 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1918, Dundee. French Chasseurs. #WW1 #HISTORY

The driver is severely distracted. 😊 (#OTD in 1944, somewhere between Eindhoven and Nijmegen. Imagine the joy, being liberated. #WW2 #HISTORY)

#OTD in 1942, North Africa. The crew of a Crusader tank preparing a meal. #WW2 #HISTORY

(Operation Market Garden.) At 1730 #OTD in 1944, the Waal Bridge at Nijmegen finally fell into Allied hands after attacking the bridge from *both* sides. 😉 Within hours, John Frost at the Rhine Bridge at Arnhem would surrender. #WW2 #HISTORY

(September, 1944, Oosterbeek.) Tennis playground behind Hotel Hartenstein, has been turned into a POW cage. #WW2 #HISTORY

BATTLE OF BRITAIN: 20TH SEPTEMBER 1940 The only major Luftwaffe raid of the day was a large fighter sweep over Kent, resulting in a sharp combat which saw the loss of seven aircraft on both sides, five of the RAF pilots being killed. Some bombs were dropped at various locations,

Four Stirlings in Flight #OTD 20 Sept 1944. From the Fred Weston collection in the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. Fred flew operations as an air gunner with 101 and 620 Squadrons. #WW2 #Arnhem80 WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk Al Murray - DKMS.ORG.UK 🇺🇦

WARNING ⚠️ Contains graphic footage of early model Lightnings. Viewer discretion is advised…

#OTD in 1944, Hamont, Belgium. Taken prisoner, by an Army Film and Photographic Unit. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Someren, Holland. A Vickers machine-gun team from 7 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in a field of corn. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. A Universal carrier crew from 4 Wiltshire's anti-tank platoon. (These men would suffer badly during a major German counter-attack around 1 October 1944, exactly where I now live.) #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Nijmegen. Hunnerpark, stronghold of the Germans at the Waal Bridge. Captured on 20 September, in a *combined* action of British Grenadier Guards Group and American Second Battalion 505 PIR. #WW2 #HISTORY #MARKETGARDEN

#OTD in 1944, Waal Bridge at Nijmegen. Gunners from 21 Anti-Tank Regiment and their 17-pounder, pointing in the direction of Beek. #WW2 #HISTORY #MARKETGARDEN

Looking decidedly the worse for wear, this is a Handley Page Halifax Met 6, the last operational variant of the type. Flt Lt Finch carried out the last-ever sortie by an RAF Halifax when he ferried the final Met.6 to 48 Maintenance Unit at Hawarden, near Chester, in March 1952.

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BATTLE OF BRITAIN: 21ST-22ND SEPTEMBER 1940 The Luftwaffe confined itself primarily to nuisance raids and reconnaissance sorties. Nocturnal attacks on London continued on both days - relatively light on 21st September, but causing 72 deaths and injuring 224 people on 22nd