(Rare) Operation Market Garden Footage
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- This is (real) footage that is used in the 1946 movie "Theirs Is The Glory", they asked the survivors (soldiers and civilians like the "Angel of Arnhem" Kate Ter Horst) of the actual operation to star in the movie to get the most authentic documentary feel for the movie. This was all shot in the ruins that were Arnhem and it's surrounding area (Oosterbeek) with still destroyed/disabled vehicles in the old battlefield.
To think that my dear Dad was somewhere among all those paratroopers makes me very proud. But it also gives me the chills.
Lest We Forget.
I watch these to see if I can find my dad someplace in there. He died when I was 5 years old.
So was my dad Sue, he was one of the glider pilots, forever grateful
Sue anonymous. Unfortunately they have been forgotten.
Every man an Emperor.
My Dad too - 1 Para HQ Signals. Dropped on 18th, captured on 23rd.
My grandfather fought in Arnhem and many more places after this battle 🏴
fair play am irish guy myself war tough
my grand father in home guard in scotland looking after sc
was he under Urquhart?
So was my father, he was one of 5 brothers who signed up together, luckily, they all came home. For my 60th birthday, my son took me to Arnhem.
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I'm hoping to visit some of these places, when this lock down is fully over
Ive lived in Arnhem all my life, so impresive to see all those places where i walk in peace today. lest we forget
I always look in these films or pictures if I can recognize some places in my hometown of Arnhem and nearby Oosterbeek. . I actualy did in this film . thanks for that ! I dont know what actualy to say but shown gratitude to these young boys whom fought for freedom in our country. Every year they come back to visit their place of nightmare .
I hope peace will once find our litle planet earth . so no one have to shoot an other man ever again . ever !!
with love
Walli
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My wife’s uncle, Arthur Blain, now deceased, was a paratrooper in the drop where they got captured by the Germans-they called it a bridge to far. He visited Holland I think on the 50th anniversary when there was a big celebration.
My late father was also a (British) 1st Allied Airborne paratrooper in that drop & he also visited Holland on the 50th anniversary.
One of his most treasured possessions was a book, made for him by the children of a Nijmegen school, thanking him for saving their town.
What a brave bunch of men they were.
My cousin Ross S. Carter C Company 504th PIR wrote extensively about their experiences in Those Devils In Baggy Pants. Leading the Sunset March in his honor was one of the highlights of my life.
Love the way this is set to the "A Bridge Too Far" soundtrack. To think so many of them never made it back. Real heroes.
The bravery of our forces never ceases to amaze me
My late father was part of operation market garden, I never got to go to any reunion with him, a year after he died, my son took me to arnhem as a surprise.
I wonder if the Dakota shown at 6:53 was that of Flight Lieutenant David Lord who won the posthumous VC at Arnhem for completing his resupply drop despite his starboard engine being in flames. His aircraft crashed before the crew had time to bale out and all the crew were killed except the co-pilot who was thrown clear. My father who was fighting with 4 Para saw it happen and called Flt Lt Lord's action the bravest thing he had ever seen.
These men were heroes. Brave warriors who risked all to save the world. Nothing but great respect for them.
I always have to wonder about the mindset of those (66 in this case) who dislike videos like this. Baffling. Great stuff to see!
Totally agree with you.
@@keltacuk8112 - perhaps they’re German?
@@28pbtkh23Nah most likely the ones who hate their country. And think anyone in a uniform is a bad un. You know those’d that enjoy thier freedom because of these men. Lest we forget.
Some of these pictures will have been filmed by my father (Gordon Johnston "Jock" Walker) one of the three AFPU cameramen at Oosterbeck.
@5:54 The body hanging out of the car is Generalmajor Friedrich Kussin, commander of Heer personnel in the Arnhem area. When the paras began landing, Kussin met with SS Major Josef Krafft to formulate a strategy. After leaving Kraft's headquarters, Kussin's car took the same route back to Arnhem. They were intercepted by No. 5 Platoon, 'B' Company, 3rd Parachute Battalion, 1st Airborne Division, let by Lt. James Cleminson.
The car attempted to reverse to escape. It did no good. The call, and all four occupants, were riddled with rounds. Three of the four occupants were killed outright, driver Gefreiter Jozef Willeke, interpreter Unteroffizier Max Koster, and Generalmajor Kussin himself. Bodyguard Unteroffizier Wilhelm Haupt was shot multiple times and captured by the British. He would die as a prisoner shortly thereafter.
For some reason, as the photographers were were filming and snapping photos of the scene, someone thought it was a good idea to take the General's body, and that of his driver, and have them hang out of the car. There are photos of driver Willeke with a rifle curiously placed in one hand, while his body lay upon a second rifle.
It wasn't until after the war that Cleminson learned that his command had killed a general.
My mother older brother was a glider pilot in the operation market garden operation, he was in the first wave on the 17th September 44. he was killed along with 3 others in a ambush on 21st September in Oosterbeek. he was aged 32.
My Grandfather was a Battery Sgt Major posted at Nijmegen with a battery of cannon. He said "honestly Phil I've never seen so many dead and dying men". Lest we forget.
Today and yesterday seen a dc-3 flying that did market garden as well as normandië.also saw her on the ground today.amazing piece of history!!
David Smith. My Father joined the Airborne and was in Operation Market Garden. I always look carefully at the film clips and wonder how he must have felt. Luckily he survived the war.
My father to was at Arnhem he was taken prisoner of war, he joined the army in 1937 as a 17 year old, you went through World War II without a scratch after surviving Dunkirk North Africa, Sicily,When the word came out at Arnhem ,every man from self, he tried to get back to the Allied lines but got captured by the SS, I spent the rest of the war in the POW camp.
My dad is 93 soon said when he was stationed in
Germany the stench of death was a reminder of what happened. He says that the German people
Didn't understand why the British soldiers didn't hate them. I'm sure some did.. He spoke to some Germans and said it's over.
I have been to Holland for the 60th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden. An incredible experience. I knew men who have jumped into Holland from the 101, 82nd, and British 1st Airborne.
"Gentlemen this a story you will tell your grandchildren and mightily board they'll be"
Absolutely fascinating footage, it brought a tear to my eye to think that there are not many of these lads left and soon this will pass from living memory into history. The bravest and toughest soldiers in the British Army; remember them.
The mortar crew at 7:55 would have to be one of the most iconic pictures of the Arnhem campaign and WW2.
The British, Canadians and Australians have been fiercely loyal and brave friends to America in the 20th and 21st Centuries, and have lost many heroes to tyranny and evil. We should keep that in mind whenever we say or do things on the world stage.
I was named after my great father ralph. He was a volunteer as he was 27 I believe when he joined. He was 5ft 6 and a paratrooper he was one of the first men on the bridge during the battle he took a bullet to the shoulder and the neck but thought till capture. A American medic tried to amputate his arm but a German doctor told him he could save if In which he did. He suffered terrible conditions as pow he even tried to escape with help from a German but unfortunately got caught and the two people he escaped with were killed. He came back from the war weighing only 6 stone. Everyone in the town knew him and would shake his hand as he walked down the street. He passed away a few years before I was born I never got to meet him but I’m very proud as I got his name from him. He’s an absolute legend.
Wonderful, I joined up and served my nation when I was just a boy. Only because my dad and uncles and my grandfather all served b4 me. It did it to make them proud of me.I served all over the world and on active duty in some not so nice places. I try not to think of the past as we all need to move on. But it was the making of me.I am just a gas man now and keep people safe in a different way. I served in the army air Corps AAC which was formed from the glider and airborne units after the ww2.
Those men fought real fascism. Now people of the same age think fascism is a mean tweet.
Fascism is a very real enemy today. Fascism is censorship, forced conformity, obedience and rigged elections. Make no mistake it is trying to be born again today.
Trump is a fascist. Unless, perhaps, you think that inciting an insurrection at the Capitol (after losing a free and fair election) is acceptable democratic behavior?
@@noahkidd3359 Hi. Examples please. You stated an example which is legally and factually absurd. Do you have any other other examples of Donald Trup being....a fascist? Do you you know what fascism is?
@@noahkidd3359 do you really believe this? You need to crack open a history book. Trump is against censorship, Biden requiring it. Trump is struggling to secure free elections, Biden struggling to end them. Trump is for free market economy, Biden trying to kill it. Trump wants the US to be independent and democratic, Biden is trying to make it a subservient state under a global, non-democratic (China) world government. Are you literate at all?
Germans fought against British colonialism, American imperialism and Soviet communism . Now shut your mouth
Just so glad he lived he always told me it was the polish army that rescued him 👍🇵🇱
They are another bunch of brave soldiers who didn’t get the recognition they deserved, Browning actually sent just over 200 to act as a rearguard to give the survivors a chance to get back over to safety, yet you don’t see that in the famous film just an attempt that failed. When it came to them surrendering they had to remove their insignia and borrow gear from the dead British troops otherwise they would have been shot immediately being Polish 🇵🇱. My uncle was badly wounded at the bridge and he was part of the four anti tank guns that were there but never get a mention because the historians like to make out it was PIATS and small arms that they only had to defend themselves with and make the holding out more dramatic.
5:30 impressive, that shot gives goosebumps
all gave some, some gave all.
Hero’s every one of them.
Brilliant. Footage. Glad I viewed it. Thanx
1st and 6th Airborne, the best of the best.
My Dad, was 12th Battalion, 6th Airborne. D-Day, Pegasus Bridge, Breville, Venlo, Rhine crossing, he was there...
Brave, courageous soldiers 👏👏👏
Oosterbeek say's Hello! Respect! Watch my fade in time Arnhem movies!
my great grandad was a paratrooper in arnhem and he got captured prisoner of war and he got released at the end of the war he told me all of his stories but he sadly died in 2016
He still lived a full life unlike his brothers in arms who died in the cities and fields trying to fight of Nazi tyranny.
0:16 These are the people who fought actual fascism. These are the heroes. These are the men that is needed in this petty world we live in today. A modern world so drunk on freedom and prosperity, it must create phoney enemies and false oppressions to fight. The world has not changed, there are REAL enemies out there. But as in 1930s Germany, the rioters, shop looters, book burners, cancellers, propaganda panderers and all in all POND-LIFE, picked the wrong fight. They will be defeated, just like the Nazis were. Totally and unconditionally. Stay strong SILENT MAJORITY.
Such a sad distaster
Would love to see me Dad, But i doubt i could recognize him, Not just with his kit, But he was so young back then. My Dad was in the 1st and my Uncle in the 6th.
So this is where Cornelius Ryan got his images for his book, A Bridge Too Far.
I've seen the still photos of General Kussin's body lying half out of his vehicle, didn't know they had a film shot. The views of 4th Parachute Brigade dropping are new to me.
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
8:18 parachute failed?!
Anthony Malesys wow, I didnt catch that until I saw your comment. It appears so... maybe his static line failed or broke. What always bothered me and made me sad is the yound men who died in training or during the deployment in accidents before they even had the chance to fight. Im grateful for all these men!
It's a supply drop, not a human drop. You can tell by the instant bundled release instead of men jumping in "sticks".
so sad...many of them did not get to go home......
The overwhelming vast majority did though. Most were captured and survived the war.
10,000 went 2,000 came back
5:52 -> the ambushed car of German general Kussin, commander of the Arnhem garrison. He was the 1st German officer to be killed in the operation, and it had to be a general !
Eerily, in the early hours of June 6th 1944, another German general, Wilhelm Falley commanding the 91st Infantry Division was ambushed and killed by troops of the US 82nd Airborne Division !
Some of scenes look like there straight out of " A Bridge Too Far". Then you realise it's actual footage, it's mind blowing.
Song and the movie make me pround
All very brave lads lest we forget
Love the glider pilot at 1:40 wearing a top hat.
ruclips.net/video/Rk9jonkxjQ4/видео.html // recreación bélica DIA -D
Then again, did not some of the British top brass give an impressions that, since the war was just about over, this would be a walk in the park?
Legendary stuff...music was great tribute to these men.
Excellent footage. But the jaunty, upbeat music seemed out of place given that Market Garden was a disaster for the Allies.
And the citizens of Arnhem and surrounding areas.
Great footage. My Father was a glider pilot for Operation Market Garden. Like many he ended up a POW. i have his prisoner ID card. He eventually came home, married and had 5 children.
Lest we forget never
What’s the second piece of music used? It’s very nice.
A Proper Cuppa I am almost certain all the various pieces of music used here are from the soundtrack of "A Bridge Too Far."
This kind of generation never to be seen again men where men and women were women and loved each other sadly this country has been destroyed by criminals in power full of hate and darkness for our 4nations .
Polska Samodzielna Brygada Spadochronowe .Polish Comand.Gen.Sosaboski.Czesc i chwała bohaterom.
The polish airborne brigade, do not get the cerdit they should for what those men did!. and Gen sosabowski .
@@1960caesar yep, they used him as a scapegoat. He warned the generals of errors on their plans to no avail.
The Children of Warsaw, 1939.
This footage was used in the reenactment in 1946 using some of the troops involved 2 years earlier. The film is on You Tube and called "There's was the glory" I think.
True example of Monty's leadership. A total ego trip that cost thousands of lives.
The idea was sound, the planning wasn't. The RAF dictated the drop zones based on poor intelligence, which were miles from the objectives. Plan doomed from that point
Ego trip my arse.
The plan was a sound plan, a very good plan. There was other factors out of Montys control that didn’t make it the success it could of been, and so nearly was.
Like many of us that served in the military, we are fully aware that no plan survives first contact, it’s not a myth.
@@Thorny5718 With the benefit of hindsight: To push XXX Corps up a single elevated road after ignoring sound intel as to the presence of substantial German armor, the selection of DZs eight miles from the objective, RAFs refusal to deliver two sorties on the first day and Brig Gen Gavin's failure to capture the Bridge at Nimigen before it was heavily defended, all contributed to the outcome. Officers at Polish staff college prior to the war who advanced on the single 30 meter road were failed!
pure arrogance from top brass
Ego trip? Monty suggested the operation, Eisenhower said "I not only approved it, I insisted upon it." Monty wasn't involved in the execution of the operation, it was others. It came within a whisker of success, in which case history would have praised Monty's bold plan.
All very brave lads
Ten film to perełka pierwszy raz mi się wyświetlił niezwykłe ujęcia,i smutne jest to że wielu ludzi widocznych na tym filmie zapłaciło życiem za głupotę i ignorancję najwyższego dowództwa.
Some of this footage actually shows Operation Varsity in March, 1945, but I guess when Theirs is the Glory was made they weren't too bothered about the cross-over.
Can you point out where they show footage of Operation Varsity?
@@Tributevideo Sure, it's not a huge amount to be fair, but at 6:53 the aircraft going down in flames is a C-46, which was only used by the 313th Troop Carrier Group on one Operation in the ETO which was Varsity. There's further footage at 8:38 of a C-46 in flight with a smoking engine, so it's safe to assume some of the associated footage of Paratroopers gathering on the DZ is from the same sequences.
This is not Rare footage. It is all footage from the film 'Thier's is the Glory'
Dear Uncle Len (2nd Lt, para) taken prisoner, years later back home in Selby along side my Uncle Don he threw himself under the rear wheels of a truck in the town square.
Oh goodness how awful. Lest we forget.
Just to clarify on my earlier comment about the radios: I believe the correct ones might have been ordered by MOD, but the manufacturer of the radios, Phillips, sent the wrong ones. Either way, the wrong crystals were knowingly issued to the signalmen before arnherm, according to Theirs is the Glory. The stores keeper told an officer, but he said to issue the wrong crystals anyway. The radios didn't work properly. Google Ernest Hamlett.
anajinn
The radios were fine. It was the high iron content in the local soil.
Hi there, lovely footage. Are you the owner?
We were honoured to follow after them and try to maintain the standard and reputation. Respect.
The 1977 movie "A bridge Too Far" was a sly piece of British-bashing propaganda.
John Frost, hero of Arnhem, was a military advisor on that movie. He said that during the filming he said to the director, "I'm sorry, this wasn't how it was." To which Attenborough replied, "I know, John, but there's American money behind me, so I have to appeal to American audiences." Hence the many pro-American inaccuracies in the movie!
I pay my respects to the men of Operation Market Garden who did not return at least twice a month. #wewillremeberthem
Even with the right crystals it did not work thanks to the trees. -,- It was tested during battlefielddetectives.
What's the music at 5:22
Utmost respect to all the men of both sides who fought during this operation.
Nope. You have respect for an occupying force?
I will not have respect for the SS no thank you.
Not for me thanks.
@@diskgrinder You recon everyone loves war?
Wasn’t the Ss waiting for the polish airborn
It's real sad :'(
Poor lads. Not knowing they would face SS troops... Holy shit 9:02!
9:02! Wow!
Old Men and Kids! But, there was some aerial photographs showing panzers well-hidden under trees with cammo netting, that's not a good sign. Some Gentleman decided this was not important, and thousands of our lads paid the ultimate prices. God bless the fallen.
It wasn't the SS troops; British Para's in Arnhem dealt with them pretty effectively before they ran completely out of ammunition.
Mojo Risin
Poor SS troops not knowing they were to face the British Paras.
Gringo
There was no German armour in or around Arnhem on the 17 Sept 1944 - the jump day. It was brought in from Germany over the next days. The RAF have no record of any photographs of German armour.
What a good video. Same music as the movie - perfect. My Dad was 82nd Airborne, 505PIR during Market Garden. Too bad it ended so horribly. Montgomery, not Browning, is the fault.
Market Garden failed due to the air segment. Montgomery had no input in the air segment. All the major decisions were made by the AIR commanders, not Montgomery. Blame Brereton, Williams and Hollinghurst for refusing to fly double missions on day one, for refusing closer drops to the targets and for refusing coup de mains on the bridges.
Montgomery argued for all of the above but these air commanders rejected all of this.
Gavin also didn't make sure Lindquist and his 508th PIR of the 82nd understood his orders to move without delay on the Nijmegen bridge after dropping if his sector was quiet enough, which it was. That was a missed opportunity. Nothing to do with Montgomery and everything to do with a command failure within the 82nd Airborne.
The ignorance in these comments, good lord. HUGE respect for my British comrades and for the Germans as well. They all fought hard and regardless of the outcome, have bigger balls than any clown behind a keyboard who would have surrendered that position after the first offer of truce.
very well said.
'... any clown behind a keyboard...' And you of course, behind your keyboard, are the bravest of the brave. There's nothing as conteptible as a keyboard 'hero' who leeches on other men's courage to big themselves up.
whats the problem of this hero??? keyboard warrior ..dont mind them...
The heroism of all the Allied troops involved cannot be bettered. But the entire operation was a complete fiasco. Poorly planned at the last minute it could never achieve it's objective.
The Greatest Generation.
Anyone else notice this music is also in the movie made about this operation 'A bridge too far' lol
they use it in a museum in arnhem, on the glider there ;)
Like a lot of things in life, you get good and bad luck. This time the gamble never quite paid off.
"gentleman, this is a story that you will tell your grandchildren and mightily bored they'll be
Randy Cheow, if only Gen. Horrocks had been correct...
Michael H, that reply was... not very connected to the quote Randy gave.
[What?] -or we could have...
'... ...or we could have let Hitler roll over the rest of Europe...' You clearly don't know the speech in which that was said in A Bridge Too Far. You also seem to have no conception of British understatement. Are you an American by any chance?
At 8:18 does any one else see that guy fall out the plane and not deploy his parachute? Like he just keeps falling.
Wot?! No engines is also shown in the book when dragons flew.
Should read the blurb at the intro, it's from a movie made in 1946. I stopped watching when I saw the DDay invasion stripes on some of the aircraft
Invasion stripes were left on aircraft after D Day and continued to be used throughout the European campaign. My father was in Malaya in1947 with the last combative Spitfire sqd and they were using Mk22 Spits from the European campaign still with black and white stripes ...
1:41, brilliant humour
I always look for my dad who was at osterbeek
The cream of the British Army in WW2. Tremendous fighting spirit. Years later Johnny Frost was scathing in his remark of the Guards Amoured Division. He felt they didn't try hard enough.
An understatement. Lord Carrington should have stayed home fox hunting. What a tool.
In fact, Frost was scathing in his condemnation of US 82nd AB for failing to assault and take the lightly defended Nijmegen bridge. This, he (and others) said, was the true reason why his men at Arnhem were doomed.
@@vinniemoran7362 Clearly you haven't studied how Captain Carrington and Sergeant Robinson fought for the Nijmegen bridge. Carrington is regarded as an excellent tank commander with a good war record, respected by his men.
@@renard801 Ah another of Monty's apologists pokes his head out of Monty's backside to explain why Monty was not responsible for the failure of Monty's plan. You have your head so far up Bernard's backside you can tell us what he had for lunch. Don't ever shit on the 82nd you knob Frost later noted Carrington - or Lord as you would have him stopped unlike the brave men of the 82nd that had 51 men killed and 138 injured crossing the Wall - Horrocks himself called it the bravest act he saw in the hole of the war.Problem was that chicken shit Montgomery launched this plan then as it was failing didn't have balls to show up for it.
See that's the problem you call these failures Lords and Field Marshall's when they either stop or don't show up you arrogant ass.And how did Frost know what was going on in Nijmegen - when he's getting his ass handed to him in Arnhem? There were a bunch of british cock ups well south of Eindhoven. Frost is the one that brought his clubs,a bad British plan goes to shyt like so many others and you blame the GIs who never got bounced off the Continent - but even they couldn't help MONTY Garden
The Guards Armoured Division did 100km in just 3 days. This was the fastest allied advance against German opposition in the entire September 1944 to February 1945 period. Nobody moved faster. They also lost around 70 tanks. Didnt try hard enough?
It wasnt the Guards Armoured fault that the US 101st failed to capture the Son bridge for them and it wasn't the Guards Armoured fault that the US 82nd failed to capture the Nijmegen bridge for them.
The people Frost should have been scathing about were Brereton, Williams and Hollinghurst. Brereton and Williams for refusing to fly double missions on day one, and Hollinghurst for refusing to fly closer to Arnhem.
Urquhart meekly went along with the RAFs choices of drop zones. No coup de main was made on the Arnhem bridge and tactically 1st Airborne got it completely wrong around Arnhem. Frost should have been harsher towards his own division's mistakes
Even if the Guards Armoured reached Arnhem, the operation still would have failed due to 1st Airbornes failure to capture the Arnhem bridge and form a bridgehead throughout much of Arnhem. A small sector of one end of the bridge wasn't good enough. The Germans always controlled the exit ramp plus 99.9% of the town of Arnhem.
at 8:20 you see a chute that failed to open
EPIC 😻😻😻
Powerful music,- supports the feeling of sadness and futility of war...
Ready for anything 🇬🇧
at 8:19 there looks to be one who's parachute didn't open - a candle!
I never noticed that, the poor guy... Let's hope his chute still opened after it went out of the shot.
I think these might be resupply airdrops, and not paratroopers at that point . the parachutes are not coming out of the planes in a steady stream like paratroopers would, but intermittently like supply bundles being pushed out by an aircrew.
@@dongilleo9743 but those had (mutiple? )parachutes and I think they would have that speed. I hope that you are right though.
the real heroes,
At 8m 18s, middle of the screen, I do hope what I saw isn't what I think it is 😔 If you look carefully it looks like someone's parachute didn't deploy.
Looks like it yes. Could also be. Weapons canister, maybe those deployed the chute at a lower altitude?
Does somebody knows what the difference is, between the dark and the white parachutes? My grandma always told me she captured a white one, after they landed.
The darkercoloured parachutes were used for the dropping of weapons/ammunition/supply containers.
The greatest generation ever🙏
Amazing how that orchestra keeps playing while they jumped out of the planes!
This should be named “operation Montgomery ego”
Trying to end the war early is ego? Market Garden did better than any other allied attempt in NW Europe that same autumn. See the Lorraine, Hurtgen Forest, Aachen, Operation Queen etc.
@@lyndoncmp5751 right about that, but shame Montgomery and some other ones ignored signals from Holland, and Sosabowski not to forget...
@@lynskyn2
Nothing was ignored though. Dutch intel was infiltrated by German spies so could not be completely trusted.
The info that a grouping of circa 10,000 German troops that 'may represent a battle scarred panzer divisions or two reforming' was passed onto British 1st Airborne on 13th September That is why they took nearly 60 anti tank guns.
Sosabowski didn't like the previous idea Operation Comet because it didn't involve enough paras, only the British and Poles. He liked Market Garden because the numbers were expanded to include US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions.
Unfortunately, Montgomery was not able to plan Market Garden. After he came up with the broad idea it was (especially Market, the air part) taken over by others and planned and decided on by them. Market was planned and decided on by Brereton, Williams, Hollinghurst, Gavin, Taylor Urquhart etc.
Montgomery was unable to persuade the air forces to fly double missions on day one or to get 101st Airborne to drop both sides of the Son bridge.
Had Montgomery planned it all it may have worked.
@@lyndoncmp5751 I'll share your analasys many today criticize Monty but they never take account of the week known quotes in a battle everything is well planned until the first shot.
Paris was liberated the 25 of August, Bruxelles the 1 of September, the supplies was low for the allies, both Patton and Monty would going forward and exploit germans weaks he could be successful except of the ambushes of combat situations.
No one could be taking as responsible for the half failure of this operation.
Crap! Forget the myth, study the facts. Eisenhower approved the operation, Monty had no part in its planning or execution.
listening to the audiobook now on RUclips by Cornelius Ryan. I highly recommended it.
Indeed,The British carried an advance warfare than their american counterparts... due to financial handicap , the war could have been ended by the British empire vs. the Nazis!
Nah! Fact is the Second World war was won by the Russians! Eastern front bled Hitler dry!
THANKFULLY WE HAD THE MEN TOO DO THE JOB , AND THE GLIDER REG TROOPS AS WELL SOMETIMES FORGOTTEN.