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1944: OPERATION MARKET GARDEN

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One of the most celebrated and controversial episodes of WW2 - and the biggest airborne assault in history. Famous above all for the plight of the tiny force of British Paratroopers under John Frost, trapped at one end of the bridge at Arnhem, cut off from their comrades who are forced to dig in around the nearby Dutch town of Oosterbeek. Montgomery's bold plan, to cross the Rhine and encircle Nazi Germany’s industrial heartland, hopes to bring a swift end to the war while the Germans are still reeling from their catastrophic retreat out from France. But the operation, depending on a British armoured column advancing up a single 100km road to link up with American and British airborne, soon goes badly wrong. Above all nobody seems to have planned or prepared for the speed and ferocity of the German response...
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@lyndoncmp5751 1 year ago

Market Garden was actually the fastest allied advance against German opposition in the entire September 1944 to February 1945 period. Nearly 100km of German held ground taken in just 3 days and Eindhoven and Nijmegen were liberated.
The American Hurtgen Forest and Lorraine campaigns were far more costly and bigger failures at the same time, but no big movies were ever made about those failures.

@billballbuster7186 7 months ago

If you tell a lie often enough and loud enough people will believe it, as here were you have a British show with an American Narrative. Monty's idea was Operation Comet, not Market Garden which was cooked up by SHAEF after Comet was rejected September 10th for being too British. The essential element in Monty's Comet was surprise, with all airborne drops to be completed in one day. The other great lie is to suggest Monty was responsible for the entire Market Garden plan, which was an impossibility given its size and complexity.

@davidwhittington7638 1 year ago (edited)

A very simplified version of events, that missed key issues and solutions. Like the British Baily bridge used at Eindoven due to the Americans not capturing any of their brides at Eindoven. No mention of the outstanding bravery of individuals, British or American, no mention of the medals awarded, no mention of Longsdales force that held the edge of the Rhine, for the paras to get across. no mention of the Canadians that ferried soldiers out etc. etc. etc. 51 minutes is not long enough to tell the story of the men at Arnhem. I noticed a leniency regarding the Yanks with all their mistakes, II felt they were let off lightly in this program. And regarding Antwerp, the Scheldts at the mouth of Antwerp were heavily defended by the Germans. It took the Royal Marines days to capture, with the cost of many lives. Monty tried to avoid these casualties. As for Eisenhower's Broad Front, it had already stalled due to fuel shortages. Pattern had failed to push forward, the entire front had practically come to a standstill, hence Eisenhower agreed to Monty's plan. In other words the Americans were desperate because their plan wasn't working. This program was a copout and an insult to the British veterans, probably because the creators of this program wanted to sell this shitshow to the Yanks. I implore anyone watching this program, to read or watch more in-depth videos and programs to understand the entirety of Market Garden.