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Arnhem
Regimental Art  Parachute Regiment  Arnhem |
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Arnhem, Operation Market Garden military art prints showing Colonel Frost's 2 Para, from parachuting from Dakota transport aircraft over the drop zone at Renkum Heath to the Assault on Arnhem Bridge. Military art prints by David Pentland, Geoff Lea and Simon Smith. Military art prints published by Cranston Fine Arts. The Parachute Regiment The regiment was raised in 1942, regimental motto is ready for anything. Regimental Battle Honours (Emblazoned)
VICTORIA CROSS Four members of the regiment have been awarded the Victoria Cross, two during the Second World war, and two during the Falklands war. |
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Arnhem - September 17th 1944 by Graeme Lothian. Douglas C47 Dakotas fly into the landing and drop zone at Renkum Heath, September 17th 1944. |
Market Garden. Arnhem by Graeme Lothian. Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion sort their kit out and get ready to enplane the waiting American Dakota C-47s of the 14 and 59 Squadrons/61st Troop Carrier Group. The paratroops took off simultaneously from Saltby and Barkston, commencing at 1121. All planes were in the air by 1155. A relatively uneventful trip over the northern route to the Netherlands resulted in not a plane being shot down; only five were slightly damaged. The 1st Battalion were dropped at 1403, 2nd Battalion at 1353 and the 3rd Battalion at 1356, all at DZ-X, west of Wolfhezen some eight miles west of Arnhem. The Battalion orders were for three different routes to the Arnhem Bridge. 1st Battalion took the Leopard route, 2nd Battalion Tiger route and the 3rd Battalion Lion route. Only the 2nd Battalion, commanded by Lt colonel John Frost managed to fight their way to the bridge. |
Arnhem Op Market Garden by Geoff Lea. Douglas C47 Dakotas fly into the landing and drop zone at Renkum Heath, September 17th 1944. |
6th June 1944 (Dakotas) by Ivan Berryman. As part of Operation Overlord in June 1944, it was necessary to deploy large numbers of troops quickly and accurately to the fields and bridgeheads of Northern France. No aircraft was better suited to dropping paratroopers and their equipment than the ubiquitous Douglas Dakota, these examples being of No.271 Squadron from Down Ampney near Gloucester. |
Arnhem Bridge by Simon Smith. Men of Colonel Frosts 2 Para retake the bridge after a German attempt lead by Captain Viktor Graebner of the 9th SS panzer Division (armoured reconnaissance Troops) had failed. |
Arnhem by Simon Smith Douglas C47 Dakotas fly into the landing and drop zone at Renkum Heath, September 17th 1944. |
Operation Market Garden by Michael Turner The opening phase of the epic battle of Arnhem. Airborne troops of the British 1st Parachute Brigade are seen landing on their drop-zone near Wolfheze on 17th September 1944, as glider-borne Jeeps of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron lead the seven mile dash to their objective, the bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem. |
Arnhem Drop 17th September 1944 by Simon Smith. No text for this item |
Graebner's Attack, Arnhem Bridge, 18th September 1944 by David Pentland. German Armoured Reconnaissance troops led by SS Captain Viktor Graebner, of the 9th SS Panzer Division, are decimated and repulsed by the men of Colonel Frosts 2PARA, as they attempt to retake the bridge by a coup-de-main. |
British Paratroopers 1943 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
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