Large-scale air raids in World War II, including the preliminary bombing during Operation Market Garden to aid the US 101st Airborne Division paratroopers in securing the bridges in and around the town on 18 September 1944, destroyed large parts of the city.

The nation was liberated largely by Canadian troops, with the assistance of the British, American and Polish forces, ( see Operation Market Garden ) and French airborne ( see Operation Amherst ).

During September 1944, the city saw heavy fighting during Operation Market Garden.

* Operation Market Garden, an Allied plan in World War II

* 1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the " Market " half of Operation Market Garden.

* Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day.

* 1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.

Waves of paratroopers land in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in September 1944.

* September 17 – WWII: Operation Market Garden begins.

** Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal.

Still, within the constraints of a very large effort overall, Eisenhower gave Montgomery and his 21st Army Group a strong priority for supplies for Operation Market Garden.

Polish ground troops were present in the North Africa Campaign ( siege of Tobruk ); the Italian campaign ( including the capture of the monastery hill at the Battle of Monte Cassino ); and in battles following the invasion of France ( the battle of the Falaise pocket ; and an airborne brigade parachute drop during Operation Market Garden ).

In the military context, he sent units forward ostensibly on reconnaissance missions, to later reinforce them when resistance was met and eventually turned small scale probes into all out attacks ; he notably did this during the Battle of Sicily in the advance on Palermo and again in the campaign in northwest Europe, notably near Metz when his 3rd US Army was officially halted during Operation Market Garden.

In World War II, during Operation Market Garden ( September 1944 ), the British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade were given the task of securing the bridge at Arnhem.

Operation Market Garden ( 17 – 25 September 1944 ) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War.

Comet was replaced by a more ambitious plan to bypass the Siegfried Line by hooking around its northern end, allowing the Allies to cross the Rhine with large forces and trap the German Fifteenth Army between Arnhem and the shores of the IJsselmeer: Operation Market Garden.

However, he consented to Operation Market Garden, giving it " limited priority " in terms of supplies but as part of his advance on a broad front.

Even so, before Operation Market Garden started it seemed to the Allied high command that the German resistance had broken.

Operation Market Garden opened with Allied success all round.

If either of the Nijmegen or Arnhem bridges were not captured and held, the advance of XXX Corps would be blocked and Operation Market Garden would fail.

Extensive successful drops were made during the Normandy Landings ( see Operation Tonga ), under the command of General Richard Gale, but Operation Market Garden against Arnhem under General Frederick Browning were less successful, and proved, in the famous phrase, to be A Bridge too far.

In the late sixteenth-century, Philip II of Spain acquired many of Bosch's paintings, including some probably commissioned and collected by Spaniards active in Bosch's hometown ; as a result, the Prado Museum in Madrid now owns The Adoration of the Magi, The Garden of Earthly Delights, the tabletop painting of The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, the The Haywain Triptych and The Stone Operation.

* 1965 – The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

In February 1965 he lobbied against escalating aerial bombardment of North Vietnam in the aftermath of Pleiku, arguing in a letter to the president that Operation Rolling Thunder would lead to a need for " vastly strengthened.

On 20 March 1965, after the initiation of Operation Rolling Thunder against North Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave approval for a corresponding escalation against the trail system.

This was made possible by the close-out of " Operation Rolling Thunder " and the commencement of " Operation Commando Hunt " in November 1968.

The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1957 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos ( see Secret War ) and in the strategic bombing ( see Operation Rolling Thunder ) of North Vietnam.

Quoting figures available at the time, a Rolling Stone feature claimed that up to half a million Bengalis had been killed by the cyclone in November 1970 − " a figure impossible to understand " − and the Pakistani army's subsequent brutal campaign of slaughter under Operation Searchlight accounted for at least 250, 000 civilians “ by the most conservative estimates ”.

Foreign Minister Trinh announced on 30 December that Hanoi would rather than could open negotiations if the U. S. unconditionally ended Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division ( later Seventh Air Force ), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force ( VNAF ) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.

* Declassified CIA documents concerning Operation Rolling Thunder

* Bibliography: Operation Rolling Thunder

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After a ritualized condemnation, Ho said he would be willing to negotiate if the U. S. Operation Rolling Thunder bombing of the North ceased.

* February 13-President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes Operation Rolling Thunder, a campaign of air strikes against North Vietnam.

* March 2 – Operation Rolling Thunder, a massive American air campaign against North Vietnam, begins.

* April 10 – The U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff submit a plan for Operation Rolling Thunder which includes a list of major fixed targets in North Vietnam in its section Alpha.

* May 13 – The United States suspends Operation Rolling Thunder strikes against North Vietnam.

* May 18 – The United States resumes Operation Rolling Thunder strikes against North Vietnam.

* January 31 – The United States resumes Operation Rolling Thunder over North Vietnam.

* November 1 – President Lyndon B. Johnsons administration suspends all American bombing of North Vietnam ; Operation Rolling Thunder is suspended.

With the onset of Operation Rolling Thunder, the strategic aerial bombardment of North Vietnam in April 1965, the U. S. also expanded its interdiction effort in Laos by dividing the Barrel Roll area into two sections on 3 April.

Following the success of anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary, in March 1968 U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson halted bombing operations over the northern portion of the North Vietnam ( Operation Rolling Thunder ), in order to encourage Hanoi to begin negotiations.