Dennis Smith Photographs | World War II Database


A group of German prisoners at Wolfheze, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944	A photograph taken through the window of a troop carrying glider during Operation Market Garden, 17 Sep 1944; note other Allied aircraft and the Dutch coast in distance

British paratroopers of 1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron on the ground gathering their parachutes, Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944	C-47 Dakota aircraft dropping troops of UK 1st Airborne Division over Oosterbeek near Arnhem, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944

Men of Headquarters Artillery Group of UK 1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron landing near Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944; note the two collided Horsa gliders in background	Brigadier P. H. W. Hicks studying a map at Divisional Headquarters during the advance to Arnhem, Netherlands during Operation Market Garden, 18 Sep 1944

Captain Ogilvie of the UK Glider Pilot Regiment, who landed in his kilt during Operation Market Garden, preparing for a patrol next to a jeep, 18 Sep 1944	German Waffen-SS snipers captured by Allied troops near Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 18 Sep 1944

Two British airborne troops dug in at their brigade headquarters near Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 18 Sep 1944	War correspondent Alan Wood, embedded with men of UK 1st Airborne Division, typing in woods near Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 18 Sep 1944

Four men of the 1st Paratroop Battalion, British 1st Airborne Division, took cover in a shell hole outside Arnhem, Netherlands, 17-25 Sep 1944	Men of the UK 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment marching with their vehicles and equipment along a road between Oosterbeek and Arnhem, the Netherlands, 19 Sep 1944

British troops of C Company, 5th Battalion, Border Regiment waiting in ditches near a road, observing German troops 100 yards away, Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 20 Sep 1944	Sergeant J. Whawell and Sergeant J. Turl of the UK Glider Pilot Regiment searching a damaged ULO school for German snipers, Kneppelhoutweg, Oosterbeek, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 21 Sep 1944

Major General Robert E. Urquhart of UK 1st Airborne Division planting the airborne flag outside his headquarters near Arnhem, the Netherlands, 22 Sep 1944	Four British paratroopers with Sten sub-machineguns moving through a shell-damaged house in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands to which they had retreated after being driven out of Arnhem, 23 Sep 194

PIAT gunner of 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, British 7th Armoured Division, 28 Dec 1944	Buffalo tracked landing vehicles of UK 4th Royal Tank Regiment being transported forward in preparation for crossing the Rhine River into Germany, 21 Mar 1945

Men of the UK 15th Scottish Division leaving their assault craft after crossing the Rhine River near Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 24 Mar 1945	Two young German soldiers, one injured, the other dead, east of the Rhine River, Germany, late Mar 1945