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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]
May 2, 2024 · Raymond K. Bluhm. As their armies pursued the retreating Germans across France during World War II, from September 17 to 27, 1944, in what became known as Operation Market Garden, Allied commanders debated alternative strategies on how to advance into Germany.
Codenamed 'Market Garden', this plan involved the seizure of key bridges in the Netherlands by the 101st and 82nd US Airborne Divisions, and 1st British Airborne Division who would land by parachute and glider. Map of the south-east Netherlands, 1944. Then the British 30 Corps could advance over the bridges and cross the Rhine and its tributaries.
Feb 17, 2011 · By Mark Fielder. Last updated 2011-02-17. Mark Fielder discovers how Operation Market Garden could have shortened World War Two by six months, and how the plan failed at the last moment....
Apr 25, 2019 · Operation Market-Garden took place between September 17 and 25, 1944, during World War II (1939-1945). Armies and Commanders. Allies. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks. Major General Roy Urquhart. Brigadier General James Gavin. Major General Maxwell Taylor. Brigadier General Stanislaw Sosabowski.
Jul 15, 2019 · Andrew Mulholland brings the long-running debate about Arnhem up to date. Operation Market Garden parachute drop, September 1944. Seventy-five years after the event, Market Garden continues to grip historians and readers alike. It is one of those great ‘might have been’ military disasters, complete with genuine heroics and agonising ‘what ...
