A whole bunch of Allied troopers parachuted from army plane into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as a part of a daring assault in World Battle II, a leap commemorated eighty years later by their modern-day counterparts.
In a spectacular airborne drop, 700 paratroopers from eight NATO nations, together with the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and america, parachuted from 12 plane.
The leap was accomplished in two waves, with these concerned touchdown on the identical spot on Ginkel Heath close to the Dutch city of Ede.
Amongst them had been members of the British Purple Devils, a parachute demonstration workforce.
The airdrop was one among a number of occasions organized to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Backyard, an formidable army offensive designed to hurry up the invasion of Nazi Germany and shorten the size of the struggle in Europe.
