Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - Ko Lathbury tonu te rangatira o te 1st Parachute Brigade i te Pakanga o Arnhem, he waahanga o te Operation Market Garden i Netherlands. I te 18 o Hepetema 1944 i tapahia ia mai i tana whakahau i a ia i te kamupene o Major General Roy Urquhart, te GOC o te wehenga, i te wa i whara kino ai ia i te waewae maui ka pakaru tona tuara, ka mahue ia i te wa poto. I waiho a Lathbury ki te tiaki o tetahi whanau Dutch o te rohe ka noho hei herehere o te pakanga. I huna e ia tana tūranga, i mea ia he rangatira. I mawhiti ia me te awhina o te whakaeke a Dutch ma te haere noa atu i nga kuaha matua o te hohipera i mau ai ia. Na te ope whakaeke o te Rōpū Reipa i whakapā atu ai ia ki ētahi atu hōia o Ingarangi e huna ana. I whakaritea e Lathbury, me te Lieutenant Colonel David Dobie me Major Digby Tatham-Warter, he rerenga puta noa i te Rhine
He aha? I whiti a Lathbury me Digby i te Rhine i te 22 o Oketopa me nga kaimahi 137, e hono ana ki nga hoia parani a US o te Tuatahi o te Tuatahi a Frederick Heyliger's Company E o te 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, he waahanga o te US 101st Airborne Division. I whakaahuatia a Lathbury e Donald Douglas i te kiriata 1977 "A Bridge Too Far".