My Father was there, in the 1st Airlanding, Light Regiment. He landed in a Horsa Glider on the first day. He fought mostly at Oosterbeek, plotting the fall of shot for the guns. He was one of the 2,000 men out of the 10,000 that made it back across the river by boar at the end of the battle
Two of my uncles were there, unbeknownst to the other. Both barely survived being separated from main body of soldiers. They are both with God now, but thanks to them and many others, we had freedom until 2024 its all downhill from here.
Not to burst your bubble mate but Churchill sold them all and us all out. Both my grandparents survived the war, one until his early 70's passing in 93 and the other a couple of years ago. The latter hated what they have done to this country. Two world wars to thin out the best of us & initiate plans that many wouldn't see happening for decades.
I think it was a mistake to not build on the success of John Howard's Ox & Bucks glider bourn assault team from Pegasus Bridge. A coup de main force could have landed on the south side of the bridge and been backed up by para battalion drop, which would have given the main force on the north side a much greater chance of success.
I did quite a bit of reading about this when the film debuted. Monty refused to listen to Dutch officers who had studied this very situation at their "war college" Monty tried to use the narrow dike roads to move tanks etc. Narragansett Bay
Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: Have you ever been liberated? Col. Robert Stout: I got divorced twice, does that count? Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: Yes, that counts.
@@davemac1197 The Polish victim complex continues on I see. Apparently they won the battle for Italy all by themselves, won the Battle of Britain singlehanded and trapped the entire Germany army all by themselves in Falaise. I understand and appreciate that the Poles are having to go through a national revolution after Soviet occupation but it really is getting very boring now.
@@doug6500 - that, and the fact we are having our own history rewritten by the Marxists in our education system. Once again we are experiencing a bloodless revolution, but it's not 'Glorious' or 'Industrial' this time.
To minimise losses the drop was 8 miles away from bridge Which proved a disaster as only one battalion made it there At the planning one officer recommended dropping the whole division on the bridge And was castigated The germans accepted greater Losses in crete and won!
Crete was a wholly different scenario. The German paratroopers did not land on an elite armoured divison, nor is Crete anything like Holland. Pound for pound, the German paratroopers performed worse than the British at Arnhem.
They certainly suffered greater Casualties 4.000 dead 3.000 wounded but gained a victory At arnhem 6000 brirish surrendered The british at crete had greater Firepower in artillery and 25 tanks but committed a tactical blunder By abandoning hill 107!
Apart from the radio crystal issue and the failure to allow a drop on the actual bridge, the British wanted to take the most difficult bridge while being the lightest armed. May well have been different if the Americans were allowed to take this bridge.
@@edwinchapple7224 they took Nijmegen bridge not sure why 30 corps failure to take the road to Arnhem is the 82nd’s fault. You must be reading a funny fiction version of history.
Patton was failing to take Metz at the time, and Eisenhower didn't properly resource it. Eisenhower should have shut the entire front down for a week. Instead he allowed Patton to bumble in the Lorraine and for Hodges to go into the Hurtgen Forest.
When you ignore and fail to report German tanks in the area before deploying you are in trouble, and radios that didn’t work reduced the event into a shambles, the Germans anticipated the importance of those bridges too, it was a rubbish plan that wasted a lot of parachute trained infantry. A wasteful failure nothing glorious, no hope of success 😆❤️🇬🇧
Myth. British 1st Airborne has the Intel that a panzer division or two was reforming in the area. That's why they took along around 70 anti tank guns, which was far more than the Germans had tanks in the area. After reports of strengthening Germans the original idea of Operation Comet, which only involved the British and Polish paratroopers, the operation was enlarged by including the two American paratroop divisions and turned into Operation Market Garden. This nearly TRIPLED the paratroop forces. They should have had enough to deal with the German forces in the area at the time. Unfortunately the caution of the USAAF air commanders Brereton and Williams by refusing to fly double missions on day one and Hollinghurst of the RAF not dropping close to the Arnhem bridge plus other decisions such as Brereton preventing tactical ground attack air support, doomed the operation.
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My Father was there, in the 1st Airlanding, Light Regiment. He landed in a Horsa Glider on the first day. He fought mostly at Oosterbeek, plotting the fall of shot for the guns. He was one of the 2,000 men out of the 10,000 that made it back across the river by boar at the end of the battle
Two of my uncles were there, unbeknownst to the other. Both barely survived being separated from main body of soldiers. They are both with God now, but thanks to them and many others, we had freedom until 2024 its all downhill from here.
Not to burst your bubble mate but Churchill sold them all and us all out.
Both my grandparents survived the war, one until his early 70's passing in 93 and the other a couple of years ago.
The latter hated what they have done to this country.
Two world wars to thin out the best of us & initiate plans that many wouldn't see happening for decades.
We went downhill the day the brits git this disillusional idea of an empire
@@bandijk5934 😴
Strange coincidence...yesterday my mother and I watched "A Bridge Too Far" and today I am watching this video about the actual military operaton.
Where can i watch it
@@Brina373 My mother and I watched "A Bridge Too Far" on DVD.
I think it was a mistake to not build on the success of John Howard's Ox & Bucks glider bourn assault team from Pegasus Bridge. A coup de main force could have landed on the south side of the bridge and been backed up by para battalion drop, which would have given the main force on the north side a much greater chance of success.
The RAF wouldn't fly there because they feared the Flak positions.
Do a video on why the radios didn’t work
I did quite a bit of reading about this when the film debuted. Monty refused to listen to Dutch officers who had studied this very situation at their "war college" Monty tried to use the narrow dike roads to move tanks etc. Narragansett Bay
Listen to the podcast: we have ways. To make you talk: you will find an interesting perspective
A train wreck that rapidly transitioned to a blood bath...
Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur:
Have you ever been liberated?
Col. Robert Stout:
I got divorced twice, does that count?
Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur:
Yes, that counts.
Don’t rely on Hollywood for your history.
"Paratroopers from the UK and US" - someone forgot the Poles, again.
The brave efforts of the Poles are mentioned a bit later on in the film!
... so there's no evidence the Poles were forgotten. Again.
Cry harder. Their was a maximum of 50 poles so get gone
@@davemac1197 The Polish victim complex continues on I see. Apparently they won the battle for Italy all by themselves, won the Battle of Britain singlehanded and trapped the entire Germany army all by themselves in Falaise.
I understand and appreciate that the Poles are having to go through a national revolution after Soviet occupation but it really is getting very boring now.
@@doug6500 - that, and the fact we are having our own history rewritten by the Marxists in our education system. Once again we are experiencing a bloodless revolution, but it's not 'Glorious' or 'Industrial' this time.
My Great Granddad was here :)
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To minimise losses the drop was 8 miles away from bridge
Which proved a disaster as only one battalion made it there
At the planning one officer recommended dropping the whole division on the bridge
And was castigated
The germans accepted greater
Losses in crete and won!
Crete was a wholly different scenario. The German paratroopers did not land on an elite armoured divison, nor is Crete anything like Holland. Pound for pound, the German paratroopers performed worse than the British at Arnhem.
They certainly suffered greater
Casualties 4.000 dead 3.000 wounded but gained a victory
At arnhem 6000 brirish surrendered
The british at crete had greater
Firepower in artillery and 25 tanks but committed a tactical blunder
By abandoning hill 107!
Apart from the radio crystal issue and the failure to allow a drop on the actual bridge, the British wanted to take the most difficult bridge while being the lightest armed. May well have been different if the Americans were allowed to take this bridge.
The Americans didn’t take the objectives they were given!
@@edwinchapple7224 …
@@edwinchapple7224 and they were the most heavily armed so you have made my point, thanks.
@@communistgreyman2078 so your point is that by failing at Nijmegen, the 82nd Airborne demonstrated that they would have succeeded at Arnhem?
@@edwinchapple7224 they took Nijmegen bridge not sure why 30 corps failure to take the road to Arnhem is the 82nd’s fault. You must be reading a funny fiction version of history.
Unlucky couple of key moments and chance occurrences swung the Germans way leading to the failure of the operation
Very interesting 👍
Thanks IKE! Thanks Patton!
Thanks John Frost.
This was a British operation
This operation had nothing to do with Patton 😂😂
American exceptionalism 😂 it had nothing to do with patton it was all British 😂
Patton was failing to take Metz at the time, and Eisenhower didn't properly resource it. Eisenhower should have shut the entire front down for a week. Instead he allowed Patton to bumble in the Lorraine and for Hodges to go into the Hurtgen Forest.
When you ignore and fail to report German tanks in the area before deploying you are in trouble, and radios that didn’t work reduced the event into a shambles, the Germans anticipated the importance of those bridges too, it was a rubbish plan that wasted a lot of parachute trained infantry. A wasteful failure nothing glorious, no hope of success 😆❤️🇬🇧
Myth. British 1st Airborne has the Intel that a panzer division or two was reforming in the area. That's why they took along around 70 anti tank guns, which was far more than the Germans had tanks in the area.
After reports of strengthening Germans the original idea of Operation Comet, which only involved the British and Polish paratroopers, the operation was enlarged by including the two American paratroop divisions and turned into Operation Market Garden. This nearly TRIPLED the paratroop forces. They should have had enough to deal with the German forces in the area at the time. Unfortunately the caution of the USAAF air commanders Brereton and Williams by refusing to fly double missions on day one and Hollinghurst of the RAF not dropping close to the Arnhem bridge plus other decisions such as Brereton preventing tactical ground attack air support, doomed the operation.
I had 4'uncle's who was in this rade an all the way!! 4 of then went in an only 2came out 😊 top info on the us AIRBORNE warrior's from a oldswet my self an ex'service AB ALL THE WAY BROTHER from the U.K.! From a oldswet my self an ex'service AB ex'2para!! AB leads the way..!! 😊😊