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Organization of I Airborne Corps during Operation Market Garden. 1st Airborne Division, Major-General Roy Urquhart. 1st Parachute Brigade, Brigadier Gerald Lathbury. 1st Parachute Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel David T. Dobie. 2nd Parachute Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel John Frost. 3rd Parachute Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel John A.C. Fitch.
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]
- 17–27 September 1944
Order of Battle: Operation Market Garden. 20,190 troops were dropped by parachute, 13,781 landed by glider, and 905 airlanded on a strip prepared by airborne engineers. A total of 34,876 landed out of 36,228 despatched from UK. Altogether 3,520.8 tons of supplies were dropped by parachute and 278 artillery weapons.
Order of Battle. The following is a complete Order of Battle for Allied and German units in the Market Garden area. The only Allied units to have participated directly at Arnhem are the 1st Airborne Division, 1st Polish Brigade, 38 and 46 Groups RAF, and the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing USAAF.
May 2, 2024 · Operation Market Garden, Allied pursuit of Nazi Germany’s forces across France, and strategic airborne attempt to advance into Germany during World War II, from September 17 to 27, 1944. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery persuaded the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to approve a two-part airborne-armor assault and ...
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The commander was General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in the invasion of Europe during World War II. The operation was an airborne attack deep in the enemy's rear areas to be launched in mid-September 1944 in conjunction with a ground attack by the British Second Army.
Feb 17, 2011 · Market Garden was one of the boldest plans of World War Two. Thirty thousand British and American airborne troops were to be flown behind enemy lines to capture the eight bridges that spanned the ...
