Paratroopers Commemorate Market Garden

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Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden

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700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations - including the Netherlands , Germany , UK and US - will parachute from 12 aircraft.

The jump will be done in two waves and those involved will land at the same location at Ginkel Heath , near the Dutch town of Ede .

The airdrop is one of several events organised to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Garden , an ambitious military offensive designed to speed up the invasion of Nazi Germany .

As weeks of commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden draw to a close, these moments have caused people to pause and remember the price paid to restore peace in Europe . Thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi -occupied Holland in September 1944 . It was the most ambitious Allied airborne offensive of World War Two . The BBC World Service hears from Hetty Bischoff van Heemskerck , a young Dutch woman from the city of Arnhem , who watched the Allied paratroopers come down..