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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]
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Mar 15, 2024 · Occupied by the Germans during World War II, it was the object of Operation Market Garden, a heroic but unsuccessful attempt by American, British, and Polish airborne troops to secure the Rhine bridges in September 1944. A British war memorial, cemetery, and museum in the suburb of Oosterbeek commemorate the battle. Arnhem, Netherlands.
Jul 15, 2019 · The recent publication of William Buckingham’s Arnhem: the complete story of Operation Market Garden (2019) takes a similar line, albeit focusing on British command failings during the campaign. In contrast, Antony Beevor, in Arnhem: the battle for the bridges, 1944 (2018), argues that the operation was simply flawed from the outset.
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The two attacks were known collectively as Operation MARKET-GARDEN. [1] The airborne attack was designed to lay a carpet of airborne troops along a narrow corridor extending approximately eighty miles into Holland from Eindhoven northward to Arnhem. ( See Map 9; and Map VIII, inside back cover .)
