A Parachute Regiment lieutenant (standing on the extreme right) and a group of airborne soldiers on September 17, 1944, (Operation Market-Garden) just minutes before they put on their parachutes and boarded the Dakota behind them.

Before boarding

General Montgomery, accompanied by his spearhead (Operation Market-Garden) commanders near the Meuse-Escaut Canal on September 15, 1944. From left to right: Major General Allan Adair; Montgomery; Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks and Major General Pip Roberts.

Monty and his commanders

The ecstatic inhabitants of Eindhoven (Market-Garden) smother a Guards Armoured Division tank soon after it enters the town. - "The greeting we received in the town" - recalled one driver, "brought tears to our eyes."
 
