Eighty years after tons of of Allied troopers parachuted from army plane into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as a part of a daring World Warfare Two offensive, their fashionable equivalents repeated the soar 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 soar was achieved 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 group, the British Purple Devils.
The airdrop is one among a number of occasions organised to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Backyard, an bold army offensive designed to hurry up the invasion of Nazi Germany and shorten the warfare in Europe.