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#1 Highway Man

Posted 17 September 2019 - 12:22 PM

Operation Market Garden was a failed World War II military operation fought in the Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. It was the brainchild of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, planned primarily by Generals Brereton and Williams of the USAAF. The airborne part of the operation was undertaken by the First Allied Airborne Army with the land operation by XXX Corps of the British Second Army.[11] The objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a foothold over the River Rhine,[clarification needed] creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany.[3] This was to be achieved by seizing a series of nine bridges by Airborne forces with land forces swiftly following moving over the bridges. The operation succeeded in liberating the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen along with many towns, creating a 60 mi (97 km) salient into German-held territory limiting V-2 rocket launching sites. It failed, however, to secure a foothold over the Rhine, halting at the river.
Belligerents
United Kingdom
United States
Canada
Poland
Netherlands and Dutch resistance
VS.
Germany
Commanders and leaders
Bernard Montgomery
Miles Dempsey
Frederick Browning
Brian Horrocks
Lewis H. Brereton
Stanisław Sosabowski
German leaders:
Gerd von Rundstedt
Walter Model
Kurt Student
Wilhelm Bittrich
Gustav-Adolf von Zangen

Market Garden consisted of two sub operations:

Market - an airborne assault to seize key bridges; laying a carpet of airborne troops.
Garden - a ground attack moving over the seized bridges creating the salient.
The attack was the largest airborne operation up to that point in World War II.

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