what was "operation market garden"?
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The idea was to drop an airbourne carpet, consisting of the US 101st & 82nd Airbourne Divisions, and the UK 6th Airbourne Division with a Brigade of Polish Paratroopers over a series of bridges into northern Holland, the furthest being at Arnhem, tasked to the British and the Poles. These units, together, were knows as the First Allied Airbourne Army and they were part of Eisenhowers strategic reserve. \n\nThen British XXX Corps, under General Brian Horrocks, was supposed to roll up and get to Arnhem and relieve the paras. However, they had to go up one one, German resistance was heavy, they were late, there was bad weather in England preventing airbourne reinforcements, and to top it all the Brits and the Poles landed on top of a couple of SS Panzer Divisions. As they say round here, it all went pear shaped. 10,000 British Paras went into Arnhem and less then 2,000 came out.
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In January, 1968 (I think) the North Vietnamese Army along with the Viet Cong launched an offensive against US and South Vietnamese positions throughout South Vietnam on the holiday of Tet.  While the offensive was a military disaster for the NVA & VC, it so rattled the American public that the anti-war effort got the impetus it needed to eventually cause the US to abandon Viet Nam.
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Lend lease act with the British and convoys.  Gearing up industry to supply the British, selling destroyers to the british, having americans on the convoys helped create sentiment if the ships were sunk.  The Flying Tigers in China, though officially and in reality a volunteer group.  It is said, that Chennault was assigned this mission.  The Americans had broken the Japanese main code and had not disclosed it publicly.  The government was aware something was coming.  The British on the other hand had gotten a hold of a german enigma decoding box and was holding the sailors from the German sub that was capture in America.  So, for months the government or the military was aware that war was coming, they did not know when.  And they were aware the most likely place would have been Pearl Harbor but, again they did not warn the commander of the information.  There has been speculation that when the US reduced trade to Japan that it forced Japan economically to start the war.  That is probably true.  The US had cutoff oil and steel to Japan.  \n\nThe second reference below, it is actually very true what he wrote.  All that has been written is true.  \n\nGood luck.
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Which market?  Supermarket industry?  Marketing industry?  More information, please.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991#Events
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my great grand father died in op: market garden where they hat to get holland free from german occupation.
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This is a port in Cuba where the were receiving merchandise from Russia. Russia had given them 50 ICBM missiles to point at the U.S. during the Cold War. John F. Kennedy made them remove them and the American Navy surrounded Cuba and starved them out. Thus the Bay of Pigs.
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Do you mean Paratrooper.....or aka The Red Beret?\n\nAlan Ladd is the focus of this story based on the wartime raid on the German radar station at Bruneval. The raid was a combined services operation and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Parachute Brigade was led by Major 'John Frost' (Major Snow). An RAF radar expert, Flight Sergeant C.W.H. Cox (Sergeant Box) accompanied the raiders to tell them what to take back to England.
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The Bay of Pigs was the Bay of Pigs conflict.  It wasn't really part of another conflict.  I believe it was 1961.  Failed invasion of Cuba with Cuban nationals supported/armed by the US
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Of course it wasn't...\n\nThey had to nuke 2 cities? Killing INNOCENT women & children?\n\nIn response to an attack on a military installation...\n\nI think today that would be considered a war crime.
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I once read a nice turn of phrase in (of all things) an Entertainment Weekly movie review (the moview was "Cabaret Balkan"), which was "a world at its own throat."  \n\nI don't profess to be an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  However, it seems to me, that this pretty aptly describes what is going on over there at the moment.\n\nThere is no logical reason to loot the greenhouses.  Now, probably the looters each had individual motives.  These could have been boredom, a need for the tubing and plastic sheets at home, hatred towards the Israelis, fear, because someone told them to.  But overall, there really is no reason to dismantle greenhouses that were for the use of their own.\n\nApparently, Hamas does hate everyone and everything.
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I went of the BBC website and searched, assuming that I have the right show it was part of their WWII series below is the link to the website for that episode\nWhen I kept looking I found a review that is probably what you are looking for (link 2)
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European\nBattle for Stalingrad, Battle of Normandy, and Second Battle of El Alamein \n\nPacific \nBattle of Midway, Battle of Guadalcanal, and Battle of Okinawa
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During World War II , the town of Dieppe in Normandi was the site of the ill-fated Dieppe Raid by Canadian and British units in 1942. Later, Normandi was also the site of the Normandi Invasion or Operation Overlord that began on June 6 , 1944 (not in 1942), which day is also known as D-Day . This was the successful invasion of German-occupied France by U.S., British, and Canadian troops. Caen and other Norman towns endured many casualties in the fight for the province, which continued until the liberation of Le Havre on ( September 12 ).
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The summer Olympic games, during which Arab terrorists belonging to the PLO faction called Black September snuck into the athletes village, captured nine Israeli hostages and after their demands for the freedom of 200 Arab prisoners and safe passage out of Germany were not met, they accepted a deal to take helicopters to the airport at a NATO airbase, where they and the hostages would be flown to Cairo.\n\nAfter the helicopters landed at the air base around 10:30 p.m., German sharpshooters attempted to kill the terrorists and a bloody firefight ensued. At 11, the media was mistakenly informed that the hostages had been saved and the news was announced to a relieved Israeli public. Almost an hour later, however, new fighting broke out and one of the helicopters holding the Israelis was blown up by a terrorist grenade. The remaining hostages in the second helicopter were shot to death by one of the surviving terrorists.\n\nAt 3 a.m., a drawn and teary-eyed Jim McKay, who had been reporting the drama throughout the day as part of ABC's Olympic coverage, announced: "They're all gone."\n\nFive of the terrorists were killed along with one policeman, and three were captured. A little over a month later, on Oct. 29, a Lufthansa jet was hijacked by terrorists demanding that the Munich killers be released.\n\nThe Germans capitulated and the terrorists were let go, but an Israeli assassination squad was assigned to track them down along with those responsible for planning the massacre. According to George Jonas in Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team, eight of the 11 men targeted for death were killed. Of the remaining three, one died of natural causes and the other two were assassinated, but it is not known for sure if they were killed by Israeli agents.
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It's not a military coo, it's a military coup.\n\nWith the correct spelling, try Google.
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try:\n\nhttp://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/ANBG093J\n\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/prisons/story/0,,1713625,00.html\n\nhttp://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/154/154-pri.htm