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Exercise
Report Market Garden 2019

the event, Operation C last surviving veterans, this collectors, event organisers Force’s (RNLAF’s) 336 Squadron
Seventy-five years after onsidering the age of the liaison between vintage vehicle of the Royal Netherlands Air
year’s 75th anniversary
Market Garden is of Operation Market Garden was and governments to help mark at Eindhoven Air Base. More than
significant commemorations. For
1,200 paratroopers from nine
still a focal point of almost certainly the last to be OMG2019, hundreds of vehicles and countries participated in the event.
remembrance for today’s marked on such a large scale. personnel had to be transported On the final day, seven Hercules
airborne operations Alongside events on land to from the UK to the Netherlands. and a single German Transall
specialists. Kees Otten commemorate the Allied offensive The highlight of the airborne operating from Eindhoven Air Base
and Wim Das report from to free Arnhem from German operation was at Ginkelse flew in three waves, dropping more
Heide on September 21, but
occupation in 1944, Operation
than a thousand paratroopers
the Netherlands, while Joe Market Garden 2019 (OMG2019) several paratrooper drops were above the Ginkelse Heide. Among
Campion takes to the air included the mass dropping of conducted prior to that, as well the dignitaries in attendance were
with today’s paratrooper thousands of paratroopers at as other activities in the air, on Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands
transports. several landing zones around the ground and involving the and Charles, Prince of Wales.
the Dutch province of Brabant. crossing of rivers. The OMG2019
The commemorations were air component was run alongside Airborne operations
organised by the Dutch Ministry Operation Falcon Leap, which The 75th anniversary was used
of Defence together with the took place from September 10-21 to revive public awareness
Liberation Task Force (LTF). Based as an offensive airborne assault about Market Garden as one
in the UK, the LTF serves as a operation under the supervision of the decisive operations
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