Taking it is easier than holding it afterwards. Everything won by the Allies during that operation couldn't be held and improved on because they couldn't supply the forces inserted. One road and deep moving water surrounding their positions defeated them. Bradley had to take supplies from Patton to give to Montgomery. Ideally, there should've been enough to supply both at the same time but there wasn't.
@@JCaroleClarke There’s a bit more to it than that. Not least that Eisenhower would agree to things and then unagree to them, which caused no end of trouble. This from The Men Behind Monty by Richard Mead. Quote "With supplies needing to be built up, Monty sent off a signal on the next day advising Eisenhower that he would have to delay the operation until 23 September. The response was immediate. On 12 September, Bedell Smith arrived in Brussels to tell Monty that Eisenhower had now agreed to divert the transport of three American divisions to supporting the new operation, to halt the Saar thrust, to give priority within 12th US Army Group to Hodges’s First US Army on Monty’s right flank and to allow Monty to deal directly with Hodges, rather than through Bradley. It seemed that the Northern Thrust was now becoming a reality and an exultant Monty advanced D-Day for MARKET GARDEN to 17 September. *It all proved to be an illusion. Bradley, who visited Monty on 13 September and heard all about the proposals, then lobbied Eisenhower, with the result than none of the promised support materialized. With Monty, Dempsey and Browning all completely unaware of this, preparations for the operation continued.”*
@@jost-toedtli Sadly, WWl wiped out so much of British manhood that fewer generals of great quality made it to the top to lead during WWll. General Brooke was among the best along with Horrocks. Like Patton, Montgomery was a bit of a showboat but without the military genius and simplicity of design of Patton. Market Garden tried to do too much imposed on a landscape that could not support it. One single road and moving deep water all around them. Add no real accurate intel about enemy units and you are set up for failure. Like trying to stage "Henry V" on a tiny portable stage. It was not a sensible idea. But Montgomery convinced everyone and we deferred to our British hosts. That's politics.
@@JCaroleClarke Bill Slim, Richard O'Connor, Richard McCreery, Philip Roberts, Claude Auchinleck, Harold Alexander, Evelyn Barker, Percy Hobart, David Stirling etc. There was plenty of decent officers in the British Army.
Unlike other Allied operations in the same month of September, Market Garden took the most ground from the Germans, around 65 miles of it.
Taking it is easier than holding it afterwards. Everything won by the Allies during that operation couldn't be held and improved on because they couldn't supply the forces inserted. One road and deep moving water surrounding their positions defeated them. Bradley had to take supplies from Patton to give to Montgomery. Ideally, there should've been enough to supply both at the same time but there wasn't.
@@JCaroleClarke There’s a bit more to it than that. Not least that Eisenhower would agree to things and then unagree to them, which caused no end of trouble. This from The Men Behind Monty by Richard Mead.
Quote "With supplies needing to be built up, Monty sent off a signal on the next day advising Eisenhower that he would have to delay the operation until 23 September. The response was immediate. On 12 September, Bedell Smith arrived in Brussels to tell Monty that Eisenhower had now agreed to divert the transport of three American divisions to supporting the new operation, to halt the Saar thrust, to give priority within 12th US Army Group to Hodges’s First US Army on Monty’s right flank and to allow Monty to deal directly with Hodges, rather than through Bradley. It seemed that the Northern Thrust was now becoming a reality and an exultant Monty advanced D-Day for MARKET GARDEN to 17 September. *It all proved to be an illusion. Bradley, who visited Monty on 13 September and heard all about the proposals, then lobbied Eisenhower, with the result than none of the promised support materialized. With Monty, Dempsey and Browning all completely unaware of this, preparations for the operation continued.”*
A failure from the start. Planned for everything to go as planned. Nothing to plan for the enemies response.
British General Montgomery trying to outdo American General Patton - and failing.
I don't know why Monty is so famous ..
@@jost-toedtli Sadly, WWl wiped out so much of British manhood that fewer generals of great quality made it to the top to lead during WWll. General Brooke was among the best along with Horrocks. Like Patton, Montgomery was a bit of a showboat but without the military genius and simplicity of design of Patton. Market Garden tried to do too much imposed on a landscape that could not support it. One single road and moving deep water all around them. Add no real accurate intel about enemy units and you are set up for failure. Like trying to stage "Henry V" on a tiny portable stage. It was not a sensible idea. But Montgomery convinced everyone and we deferred to our British hosts. That's politics.
@@JCaroleClarke Extremely well described ❤
@@JCaroleClarke Patton didn't do any better than Monty at Metz.
@@JCaroleClarke Bill Slim, Richard O'Connor, Richard McCreery, Philip Roberts, Claude Auchinleck, Harold Alexander, Evelyn Barker, Percy Hobart, David Stirling etc. There was plenty of decent officers in the British Army.