Welcome
This is hill107.net, a site designed to present material relating to some of the major Airborne Operations of the Second World War.
Hill 107 is the hill overlooking Maleme airfield in Crete, the site of the initial attacks during the German airborne invasion of the island in May 1941 – codenamed ‘Unternehmen Merkur’ (‘Operation Mercury’), the first ever major airborne invasion in history. This hill is now the site of a German War Cemetery. This site’s banner images above are all modern day views taken from the top of Hill 107. The full, uncropped versions of these images, together with explanatory captions, are in the Crete Gallery the section of the site.
Arnhem Bridge
In spite of my use of the images of Crete as the site banner (used because I took the photographs and know they’re completely copyright and royalty free), the site at present focuses mainly on the Battle of Arnhem and contains all material previously included on my site nntk.net, which itself has undergone a major restyle and upgrade. This material includes newspaper reports, photographs and other historical documents contemporary (or nearly so) to Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Arnhem (17th-26th September 1944).
Images link to relevant site areas
I hope at a later date to increase the material available on the Battle of Crete, and then extend further to other WW2 airborne operations.
Arnhem – British paratroops landing on DZ-X and LZ-Z
