Operation Market Garden

[Kraut783]

75th anniversary is today, ballsy operation....rest in peace to the fallen, and a nations thanks to the veterans.

Mass parachute drop marks Battle of Arnhem

 

[“The Old Man”]

My Grandfather, Clifford, was a rigger/seamster for the 101st for this.
Get some gramps!

 

[AWP]

If you wear wings, THIS is what matters. If you don't understand why and wear the wings, please kill yourself.

Airborne, all the way.

 

[Gunz]

It was a beautiful plan. Elegant. Three Airborne divisions up the corridor and an armored spear right up the middle. Just the logistics alone make my head swim. This was the Monty that wasn't always there. If only...if only.

Frost at the bridge never had a chance.

But what a beautiful plan.

Odd, too, that even after this the high command continued to underestimate German strength and capabilities...thus the Bulge a few months later.

 

[AWP]

Three Airborne divisions up the corridor and an armored spear right up the middle.

I've seen that movie. I think she still lives outside of Fayetteville.

 

[DA SWO]

It was a beautiful plan. Elegant. Three Airborne divisions up the corridor and an armored spear right up the middle. Just the logistics alone make my head swim. This was the Monty that wasn't always there. If only...if only.

Frost at the bridge never had a chance.

But what a beautiful plan.

Odd, too, that even after this the high command continued to underestimate German strength and capabilities...thus the Bulge a few months later.

Never underestimate the other guys will to fight.
Poles were decimated by this, and (for me) another reason why I am not a fan of Montgomery.

 

[Kraut783]

Some good footage...

 

[Devildoc]

Montgomery. A legend in his own mind.

My uncle was a paratrooper with the 101st during world War II, made every jump with them. He had nothing nice to say about Market Garden. It was a gallant effort would a half-assed plan, but it was audacious. If it was going to work it would be a stellar success, and if not, an epic failure.

 

[Gunz]

Montgomery. A legend in his own mind.

My uncle was a paratrooper with the 101st during world War II, made every jump with them. He had nothing nice to say about Market Garden. It was a gallant effort would a half-assed plan, but it was audacious. If it was going to work it would be a stellar success, and if not, an epic failure.

I'd have to disagree that it was a half-assed plan. It was audacious, yes, but it was also a beautiful conception. If German resistance had been as light as they assumed it was going to be around the lower bridges and along the dike roads, it would've worked. Even if Frost failed to get a bridgehead across the Rhine, the timely arrival of Horrocks XXX Corps would've turned the tide.

 

[Board and Seize]

All four Para Battalions are doing a memorial jump.

 

[Gunz]

I've seen that movie. I think she still lives outside of Fayetteville.

Amphib assault up the harbor, vertical envelopment in the rear. Her sister lives in J-ville.

 

[Devildoc]

I'd have to disagree that it was a half-assed plan. It was audacious, yes, but it was also a beautiful conception. If German resistance had been as light as they assumed it was going to be around the lower bridges and along the dike roads, it would've worked. Even if Frost failed to get a bridgehead across the Rhine, the timely arrival of Horrocks XXX Corps would've turned the tide.

Some historians claim it was "doomed from the start" (quoted because not my words) because of faulty intelligence, poor planning, and a lack of understanding the terrain. It was going to go one of two ways: brilliant success that shortened the war, or disastrous failure than lengthened the war. Aside from Overlord probably the biggest en masse gamble.