Operation Market Garden was a plan devised by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, his plan to drop 35,000 British and American troops into Holland to capture the bridges at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem in hope of crossing the Rhine into the Ruhr in Germany and taking control of there industry
The plan failed!
The British at Arnhem were supposed to be relieved after two days by the British xxx corps tank brigade but due to ignored intelligence from the Dutch underground that bittricks 2nd ss army was resting in the Arnhem area , the British at Arnhem were surrounded they faced a brutal onslaught
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The plan failed!
The British at Arnhem were supposed to be relieved after two days by the British xxx corps tank brigade but due to ignored intelligence from the Dutch underground that bittricks 2nd ss army was resting in the Arnhem area , the British at Arnhem were surrounded they faced a brutal onslaught
On the 20th September a ceasefire was agreed to let over 200 British and German casualties to taken out of the battlefieldView attachment 116761
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