Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: Excellent for Father’s Day?

On 17 September 1944, Normal Kurt Scholar, the founding father of Nazi Germany’s parachute forces, heard the rising roar of aero engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat panorama of southern Holland to observe the huge air armada of Dakotas and gliders,carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American a hundred and first and 82nd Airborne Divisions. He gazed up in envy on the best demonstration of paratroop energy ever seen.