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Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany ...
The Battle of Arnhem was fought during the Second World War, as part of the Allied Operation Market Garden. It took place around the Dutch city of Arnhem and vicinity from 17 to 26 September 1944. The Allies had swept through France and Belgium in August 1944, after the Battle of Normandy.
3rd Royal Tank Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel A.W. Brown (KIA 25 September 1944) 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 159th Infantry Brigade, Brigadier J. B. Chucher 1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment; 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Hubert Gerald Orr (KIA 25 September 1944)
Operation Market Garden aimed to push through the Netherlands and into Germany just a few months after the D-Day landings. ... “The friendships made during those difficult days of September 1944 ...
On Sept. 17, 1944, Operation Market Garden began, a military undertaking that consisted of two main parts. ... September 1944. In the second part, the British Second Army was to cross bridges over ...
The Battle of Nijmegen, also known as the Liberation of Nijmegen, occurred from 17 to 20 September 1944, as part of Operation Market Garden during World War II.. The Allies' primary goal was to capture the two bridges over the Waal River at Nijmegen – the road route over the Waalbrug (Waal Bridge) and Nijmegen railway bridge – and relieve the British 1st Airborne Division and Polish 1st ...
Alec Hall was dropped behind enemy lines at Arnhem, in the Netherlands, in 1944, to try to open up a route into Germany. Operation Market Garden veteran marks 100th birthday Skip to main content
[82] [83] Operation Market Garden was fought from 17 to 25 September 1944, and ended with a British defeat at the Battle of Arnhem when the ground forces were held up by German defenders on the narrow road, and could not reach the airborne troops in time. General Dwight D. Eisenhower