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The goal of Operation Market Garden was to capture the main bridges across the rivers
Meusse and Rhine and the Maas-Waal and Wilhelmina canal in one coordinated ground- and
airborne assault, after which the Allied armies would swing east and so flank the Germans.
It didnīt exactly work out as planned...
Military map of Arnhem 1944
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Fierce fighting in the woods and fields around Arnhem |
A fantastic sight: thousands of parachutes falling from heaven.. |
Heroic defense of the stronghold at the ramp of the bridge at Arnhem |
Recommended books:
A Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields: Arnhem,
Oosterbeek, Driel (John Waddy)
A Bridge too far.(Cornelius Ryan)
It never snows in september: The German View of Market
Garden and the Battle
of Arnhem, Sept. 1944 (Robert Kershaw, 1996)
Arhem: Britain's Infamous Airborne assualt of WW2 (Robert E.
Urguhart, 1996)
Click here to find the above mentioned books or other books about Market Garden! |
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