Operation Market Garden and Operation Rolling Thunder are examples of battles known by their military codenames.

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.

President Kennedy has urged a peace race on disarmament that might be called `` Operation Survival '' which has many facets.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

* See Operation Bootstrap (" Operación Manos a la Obra "), ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century.

For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.

Indeed, the final German blitzkrieg operation in the west, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was planned to take place during poor weather which grounded Allied aircraft.

Hermann Göring had promised the Luftwaffe would complete the destruction of the encircled armies, but aerial operations did not prevent the evacuation of the majority of Allied troops ( which the British named Operation Dynamo ); some 330, 000 French and British were saved.

For instance during Operation Enduring Freedom the United States attacked targets of very low monetary value with cruise missiles, which led many to question the efficiency of the weapon.

Image: US forces Operation Enduring Freedom. jpg | United States Army Special Forces on horseback with the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, which frequently used horses as military transport.

Queensrÿche fared better later the decade, releasing the rock opera Operation: Mindcrime in 1988, which tells a story of a young man, Nikki, awoken from a coma suddenly remembering work done as a political assassin.

In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

Low-intensity storms have hit the island, including in 1901, which blew over 1, 500 coconut trees, on September 16, 1944 which caused the wreck of a Royal Air Force PBY Catalina, September 1990 which demolished the tent city then being constructed for USAF bomber crews during Operation Desert Storm, and on July 22, 2007 when winds exceeded and over of rain fell in 24 hours.

In February 1944, Operation Hailstone, one of the most important naval battles of the war, took place at Truk, in which many Japanese support vessels and aircraft were destroyed.

* 1941-Germany planned to occupy Gibraltar ( and presumably hand it over to Spain ) in " Operation Felix " which was due to start on 10 January 1941.

This led to a CIA-orchestrated coup in 1954, known as Operation PBSUCCESS, which saw Arbenz toppled and forced into exile by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.

In May 1985, the vessel was instrumental for ' Operation Exodus ', the evacuation of about 300 Rongelap Atoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from a US nuclear test two decades ago which had never been cleaned up and was still having severe health effects on the locals.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

* On July 25, 1993, following Hezbollah's killing of seven Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Israel launched Operation Accountability ( known in Lebanon as the Seven Day War ), during which the IDF carried out their heaviest artillery and air attacks on targets in southern Lebanon since 1982.

* In April 1996, after continued Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, the Israeli armed forces launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, which was intended to wipe out Hezbollah's base in southern Lebanon.

" In June 2002, shortly after the Israeli government launched Operation Defensive Shield, Nasrallah gave a speech in which he defended and praised suicide bombings of Israeli targets by members of Palestinian groups for " creating a deterrence and equalizing fear.

He was at first selected to command the First Army, which was to take part in Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

In the post-war era, the Justice Department launched Operation Wetback, under which 1, 075, 168 Mexicans were deported in 1954.

In July 2002, Ashcroft proposed the creation of Operation TIPS, a domestic program in which workers and government employees would inform law enforcement agencies about suspicious behavior they encounter while performing their duties.