The morning of September 26, 1944; the exhausted survivors of the Oosterbeek perimeter (Operation Market-Garden) look relieved having crossed the Lower Rhine to safety...

Survivors

A Short Sterling Mark IV (LK115, '8S-Z') of No. 295 Squadron R.A.F., taking off from Harwell, Oxfordshire (U.K.), towing an Airspeed Horsa glider. This was one of 25 Stirling/Horsa combinations which carried the Headquarters of I. Airborne Corps to landing zones near Groesbeek, Nijmegen; September 17, 1944 (Operation Market-Garden). 

Takeoff

A tense moment. A British airborne soldier prepares to jump from a Dakota during an exercise in April 1944.