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Feb 17, 2011 · The Battle of Arnhem (Operation Market Garden) Mark Fielder discovers how Operation Market Garden could have shortened World War Two by six months, and how the plan failed at the last...
Jun 12, 2006 · On September 11, 1944 (six days before the invasion of Holland), the unit commanders of the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions received a briefing on their next parachute assault operation. The code name of the mission was Operation Market Garden.
British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery submitted and received approval for Operation Market-Garden, which would be First Allied Airborne Army’s baptism of fire. Montgomery’s plan was a two-pronged attack; Market was the code name for the airborne element which called for 34,600 troops to be dropped behind German lines to capture major ...
