US paratrooper in the fire zone during Operation Market Garden, Netherlands, 1944.  US paratroop operations targeted at capturing the southern bridges along the line of advance were generally very successful; further north, British and Polish paratroopers were less fortunate.  Best regards, JR.

Operation Market Garden - in the thick of it.

Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle share a joke, around the time of Operation Overlord.  I have the very greatest respect for Ike.  He had one of the hardest jobs of the war - persuading, cajoling and pressuring the ambitious, fractious, bickering political and and military leaders of the western "Allies" (of whom CDG was one of the more difficult) to pull together in the interests of achieving final victory in the West.  His general success in this suggests that, had he not entered the military, he would have been a really great diplomat ... JR.

Hot head and cool head ...

Italian Campaign: an American Field Service’s ambulance riddled with shots of small fire arms near Cassino, March 1944. Victor Sierra