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3 days ago · Hoping to end the war by Christmas, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery conceived an audacious plan, code-named Market Garden, to seize bridges across the Rhine river in Holland and outflank the vaunted Siegfried Line defenses. If successful, Market Garden would open the path into the Ruhr valley, the industrial heart of the Third Reich.
1 day ago · BERNARD Montgomery, promoted to Field Marshal in September 1944, was a big Rolls-Royce fan – and he had three at his disposal. In England, his official car was a Phantom III, which he often sent ...
2 days ago · George Smith Patton Jr. was born on November 11, 1885, [1] [2] in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel, California, to George Smith Patton Sr. and his wife, Ruth Wilson, the daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson, the second Mayor of Los Angeles. The wealthy Patton family resided at Lake Vineyard, built by Benjamin Wilson, on 128 acres (52 ha) in ...
5 days ago · The commander-in-chief of the Normandy land forces, 39 divisions in all, was the experienced General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976). Commanding the air element was Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Mallory (1892-1944), with the naval element commanded by Admiral Bertram Ramsay (1883-1945).
2 days ago · Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. [8]
4 days ago · Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery was appointed and led the Eighth Army offensive. The Allied victory at El Alamein was the beginning of the end of the Western Desert Campaign, eliminating the Axis threat to Egypt, the Suez Canal and the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields.
3 days ago · British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery meets the Belgian army in the Grand Place of a liberated Brussels On September 4, 1944, after a rapid push from Le Havre, the Piron Brigade took part in the liberation of Brussels after a breakthrough by the Welsh and Grenadier Guards.
