The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)

Sacramento's Harry Schmid, a glider pilot, and Ed Chandler before the launch of Operation Market Garden. September 17, 1944. Schmid also took part in the invasion of Normandy.

Source: Harry Schmid

Airborne troops are ferried to Holland for Operation Market Garden. September 17, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-198051)

Citizens of Gravas, Holland welcome American paratroopers, part of Operation Market Garden. September 18, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-195311)

Infantrymen grab sleep where they can. Normandy, France, July 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-191444)

Harry Schmid was born in 1921, a 5th generation Sacramentan. His father worked for the telephone company and moved the family to Stockton in the mid 1930s, but Schmid returned to Sacramento after high school, got a job as a bookkeeper at the telephone company and studied accounting at Sacramento . . .

Sacramento's Harry Schmid, a glider pilot and infantryman, takes a break from the action in Orleans, France, 1945. Schmid took part in the invasion of Normandy and Operation Market Garden.

Source: Harry Schmid

Harry Schmid, ready for combat, in front of a cafe. March, 1945. Schmid, from Sacramento, became a glider pilotand was part of the landings in Normandy and Operation Market Garden. After landing his glider, he became an infrantryman.

Source: Harry Schmid

Sacramento's Harry Schmid, "on-tow" , at the helm of his glider. Schmid took part in the invasion of Normandy and Operation Market Garden.

Source: Harry Schmid

Sacramento's Harry Schmid at the controls of his glider. Schmid took part in the invasion of Normandy and Operation Market Garden.

Source: Harry Schmid

Harry Schmid's glider after a bumpy landing in Holland. September 17, 1944. Schmid was part of the invasion of Normandy and Operation Market Garden.

Source: Harry Schmid

The hardest part was not knowing what was going to happen.

Bill Mauldin worked for Stars and Stripes during the war. His cartoons were viewed by GIs serving in Europe.

Source: Copyright 1945 by Bill Mauldin. Displayed courtesy of the William Mauldin Estate.

Jumpmaster inspects paratroopers of 82nd Airborne preparing for Operation Market Garden, the invasion of Holland. Sept. 17, 1944

Source: National Archives (111-SC-254001)

Brig. Gen. James Gavin, 82nd Airborne, prepares his pack, outside of plane, for Operation Market Garden, the invasion of Holland. September 17, 1944

Source: National Archives (111-SC-232810)

Members of the 101st Glider Borne Division head for the loading area. September 18, 1944, one day after Operation Market Garden began.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-377589)

Anglo-American offensive that included history's largest airborne operation. The brainchild of British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Operation MARKET-GARDEN was designed to catapult the 21st Army Group across the Rhine River into the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland, and win the war in 1944. The plan called for three airborne divisions . . .

Japanese-American evacuees, under the watchful eye of U.S. soldiers, wait outside trains at Santa Anita Assembly Center. April 5, 1942.

Source: National Archives (WC-0780)

Under the watchful eye of the U.S. Army, Japanese-Americans are evacuated from Salinas, California. May 1942.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF34-072513-D)

Aerial of downtown Sacramento, including the Capitol building, ca. 1940.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83-01-111)