Eighty years after a whole bunch of Allied troopers parachuted from navy plane into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as a part of a daring World Warfare Two offensive, their trendy equivalents repeated the leap in commemoration.
In an airborne spectacular, 700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations – together with the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and the US – parachuted from 12 plane.
The leap was completed in two waves, and people concerned landed on the identical location at Ginkel Heath, close to the Dutch city of Ede.
Amongst them had been members of the parachute show crew, the British Crimson Devils.
The airdrop is certainly one of a number of occasions organised to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Backyard, an bold navy offensive designed to hurry up the invasion of Nazi Germany and shorten the conflict in Europe.