Operation Market Garden approaches its 60th anniversary
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Sixty years ago, Donald Burgett was hanging beneath a parachute, drifting toward the Dutch plain north of Eindhoven.
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The 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands will be marked by events in the UK and south Atlantic.
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WARSAW, Poland  - Poland's prime minister marked the 65th anniversary of the start of the Second World War on Wednesday, unveiling a new memorial on the spot where a German warship fired the opening shots at a Polish munitions depot, sparking nearly six years of bloody conflict.
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Hungarians have been marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto.
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Thousands of people in Paris are preparing to mark the anniversary of the city&#39;s liberation in World War II. Sixty years ago, the Nazi troops who had occupied the French capital for four years, surrendered.
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NATO honored Allied veterans of the  "Battle of the Bulge" at a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the  60th anniversary of a World War II battle seen as having  cemented the transatlantic alliance.
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Thousands of people lined the streets of Paris Wednesday to watch a reenactment of the French and US liberation of the city from Nazi occupation 60 years ago.
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Sixty outside groups - and counting - make their dollars felt in campaigns.
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Nearly 60,000 Protestants joined Orange Order marches in Northern Ireland to mark the anniversary of a historic victory over Catholic forces.
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OOSTERBEEK, Netherlands - Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway."   In the legendary "Market Garden" operation, which began Sept. 17th, 1944, a massive force that was supposed to end World War II found it had attempted to go "a bridge too far."   A ceremony Sunday commemorated the heroic but doomed assault with Dutch schoolchildren raising flowers above their heads before laying them on the graves of the 1,750 Allied soldiers - mostly British - buried in Oosterbeek near Arnhem...
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France -- Under an overcast sky not unlike the morning 63 years ago when Allied forces stormed the Norman dy beaches below, US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday pointed to their sacrifice to argue that the United States and France have long worked together to defeat tyranny and now must do so again.
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Elderly residents of Dresden have relived the night 60 years ago when their city was destroyed in a devastating air raid and condemned moves by Germany's far right to hijack the anniversary.
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Festivities are beginning in Ukraine to mark the 60th anniversary of Ukraine s liberation from the Nazi invaders.
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War veterans slammed plans to hold a single major commemoration to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway."
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Germany is commemorating the 60th anniversary of one of the most controversial allied operations of the Second World War - the bombing of the German city of Dresden.
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Veterans of the Battle of Arnhem re-enact the famous air drop to mark its 60th anniversary.