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101st Airborne: Market Garden 1944

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By (author): Simon Forty Stephen Smith

After its operations in the Cotentin and around Carentan, the 101st was withdrawn from the lines in late June and sailed back to England on LSTs in July. After several false alerts, they invaded by air again into the Netherlands on September 17, 1944, part of the airborne element of Operation 'Market Garden'. The mission was to hold open Hells Highway so that land forces could advance safely to Arnhem.

Operation 'Market Garden' is a strongly debated subject among WW2 historians: was it a brave attempt to end the war early that foundered for being a bridge too far, or was it, rather, an ill-conceived waste of resources that should have been used on another front? With hindsight, theres no doubt that the operation was a daring
face=Calibri> if not risky attempt to attack deep into enemy territory proposed by a general often disparaged for being too conservative.

But at the beginning of September, it seemed to the Allied commanders that the enemy was disorganized; it had lost many men, huge numbers of vehicles, and had retreated helter-skelter through France and Belgium. In reality, the Germans had already started brilliant fire brigade reorganization and would soon have an effective defence throughout the Netherlands.

The 101st parachuted right into the middle of enemy territory and north of Eindhoven. They met little resistance to begin with and captured most of their initial objectives by the end of 17 September. But the Germans managed to demolish the divisions primary objective, a bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal at Son, forcing the 101st to attempt to capture a similar bridge a few kilometers away at best. They found the approach blocked but continued to hold territory enabling engineers to rebuild the demolished bridge. Other divisional units continued moving to the south and eventually reached the northern end of Eindhoven. In the following days they successfully defended the town of Veghel but failed to take the city of Helmond. As Operation 'Market Garden' progressed, the rest of the 101st Airborne Division joined the 82nd Airborne Division on the island to the north of Nijmegen. The Screaming Eagles saw seventy-two days of fierce round-the-clock fighting against crack German troops and showed their fighting ability and tenacity. See more
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  • Dimensions: 184 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Casemate Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781612004235

About Simon FortyStephen Smith

Simon Forty has worked in military and history publishing as editor and author for over 40 years. Following in his fathers footsteps he concentrates on highly illustrated books that combine historic material with modern photography much of it by long-time collaborator Leo Marriott.

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