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Operation Market Garden has remained a controversial battle for several reasons. Allied tactics and strategy have been much debated. [citation needed] The operation was the result of a strategy debate at the highest levels of Allied command in Europe.
Jul 15, 2019 · July 15, 2019. 9 mins read. 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.
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May 2, 2024 · Apr. 28, 2024, 11:16 PM ET (BBC) Stamps mark 80th anniversary of key World War Two campaigns. 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.
Operation Market Garden was fought from 17 to 25 September 1944, and ended with a British defeat at the Battle of Arnhem when the ground forces were held up by German defenders on the narrow road, and could not reach the airborne troops in time. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Feb 17, 2011 · 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.
In September 1944, the Allies launched a daring airborne operation to cross the Rhine and advance into northern Germany. Market Garden remains one of the Second World War’s most famous battles.
