Operation Market Garden

The Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden (September 17, 1944–September 25, 1944) was an Allied military operation in World War II in the Netherlands and Germany. Through large-scale use of airborne forces, its tactical objectives were secure a series of bridges over the main rivers of the German-occupied Netherlands to allow rapid advance by armored units. The strategic purpose was to allow an Allied crossing of the Rhine river, the last major natural barrier to an advance into Germany. The planned rapid advance from the Dutch-Belgian border into northern Germany, across the Maas (Meuse) and two arms of the Rhine (the Waal and the Lower Rhine), would have outflanked the Siegfried Line and made possible an encirclement of the Ruhr Area, Germany's industrial heartland.
The operation was initially successful with the capture of the Waal bridge at Nijmegen on September 20. But it was a failure overall since the planned Allied advance across the Rhine at Arnhem had to be abandoned. The British 1st Airborne Division did not secure the bridge at Arnhem, and although they managed to hold out near the bridge far longer than planned, the British XXX Corps failed to relieve them. The Rhine remained a barrier to the Allied advance until the offensives at Remagen, Oppenheim, Rees and Wesel in March 1945. Due to the Allied defeat at Arnhem, the north of the Netherlands could not be liberated before winter and the Hongerwinter ('Hungerwinter') took tens of thousands of lives, particularly in the cities of the Randstad area.

My Recap:

Involves are Airborne Divisions combined British and American Airborne troops moving towards Holland. to end the war before christmas

the architect of the plan is Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, a general that led the Dessert Rats on El Alamein back on april 1942 in the African soil against the Afrika Corps of Erwin Rommel.

Its fails because the plan was too risky, the allies must not done take any risk because they can i dentify the enemy using reconesense aircrafts. also a good move at least the whole army of nazi had been discovered. then they fall back to there positions some where scattered but recovered by the easy company the plan was called operation pegasus lead by leutenant moose heileger.

its a too risk plan operation market garden is such a failure.

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