Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton, (second from left) commander of the First Allied Airborne Army, chats with a British 6th Airborne Division soldier during an exercise in November 1944 with his deputy, Lieutenant General Frederick Browning (center) looking on.

Lt. Gen. Brereton

A trooper of 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, poses for his photograph at Molenhoek, an objective south of Nijmegen on the Maas-Waal Canal (Operation Market-Garden) 1944.

Posing

U.S. 17th Airborne Division arrives over the Rhine on the morning of March 25, 1945. - "It was the most perfect spring morning", wrote one paratrooper, "and we had to come to kill and destroy."