Operation Market Garden 17th September 1944

[Deadstick]

Operation Market garden was a very large Airborne attack to take the Bridges over the lower Rhine and Rhine at Arnhem in the Netherlands and the ground forces of the British 30 Corps spearheaded by the Guards Armoured Division moving North from Belgium, it involved 3500 airborne from the British ist airborne and the US 101st and 82nd airborne plus the1st Polish independent Parachute Brigade, as history tells us it failed for the most part, i have met several veterans over the years who took part, it will be 81 years ago tomorrow.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[eagle7-31]

Operation Market garden was a very large Airborne attack to take the Bridges over the lower Rhine and Rhine at Arnhem in the Netherlands and the ground forces of the British 30 Corps spearheaded by the Guards Armoured Division moving North from Belgium, it involved 3500 airborne from the British ist airborne and the US 101st and 82nd airborne plus the1st Polish independent Parachute Brigade, as history tells us it failed for the most part, i have met several veterans over the years who took part, it will be 81 years ago tomorrow.

If memory serves Ike pulled supplies from the rapid advance Patton was making. Patton had to hold up and I believe he had almost a clear path into Germany in early fall 1944.

 

[Manonthestreet]

One of the greatest war movies

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I’ve just watched “Greyhound”, a film about convoys crossing the Atlantic supplying Britain with necessities during WW2. Escorted by American and allied warships. I’d not heard of it before, it was very well done, and Tom Hanks always puts in a good performance.

 

[Deadstick]

I’ve just watched “Greyhound”, a film about convoys crossing the Atlantic supplying Britain with necessities during WW2. Escorted by American and allied warships. I’d not heard of it before, it was very well done, and Tom Hanks always puts in a good performance.

Yes that was a good film i have seen it, the U -boats took a terrible price on those convoys before we had a winning strategy to deal with them, i once knew a man who survived his Merchant ship being sunk in the Atlantic he with some other crew managed to get off the Ship he told me it was terrifying when the U Boat surfaced to have a look he thought they were going to be machine gunned in the water but the U Boat just submerged again.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Yes that was a good film i have seen it, the U -boats took a terrible price on those convoys before we had a winning strategy to deal with them, i once knew a man who survived his Merchant ship being sunk in the Atlantic he with some other crew managed to get off the Ship he told me it was terrifying when the U Boat surfaced to have a look he thought they were going to be machine gunned in the water but the U Boat just submerged again.

The problem was the “black pit”. The area when there was no air cover, from America, and the Allies.

 

[whitehall]

An airborne parachute assault when "Airborne" meant something.