A wartime English-Polish phrasebook (OnFife/PA) Mementoes from a Polish parachute brigade formed in the UK 80 years ago have gone on display together for the first time. A paratrooper’s helmet, metal eagle badge and arm flashes – worn during the Allied assault on Arnhem – are among the exhibits on show. Other items include an English-Polish phrasebook, binoculars and a tin of foot powder – given to each soldier prior to the massive airborne operation in 1944. A paratrooper’s helmet is among the items on display (OnFife/PA) In September that year, the ill-fated Operation Market Garden involved dropping more than 10,000 Commonwealth and Polish troops by parachute or glider at Arnhem in Nazi-occupied Holland, with 1,500 killed and more than 6,500 captured.