ARNHEM AIRBORNE ASSAULT by Simon Smith

Open Edition, unframed print from The Military Gallery.

70 x 45cm print, white bordered artwork (Colour artwork size approx. 50 x 30cm) with title and caption below:

 

ARNHEM AIRBORNE ASSAULT

by Simon Smith

Early in the afternoon of 17 Septemebr 1944, as Operation Market Garden begins, glider-borne infantry from the British 1st Air Landing Brigade successfully secure 'DZ-X', the drop zone on Renkum Heath several miles to the west of Arnhem. Overhead, paratroopers from the 1st Parachute Brigade begin their drop from USAAF C-47s.