Battle of Arnhem: The airborne operation that really was a bridge too far
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- On 17 September 1944, the Allies began dropping paratroopers into the German-occupied Netherlands.
Joined by airborne forces arriving in gliders, they eventually amassed around 41,000 troops.
They all had a specific mission: launch a thrust 64 miles into enemy-controlled territory, gain control of nine key bridges and create a launch point for an invasion into Germany itself.
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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
"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
Do a video on why the radios didn’t work
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.
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
My Great Granddad was here :)
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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.
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!
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@@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.
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..!! 😊😊
I like the British forces not ally forces and I really don’t like general Eisenhower
I like Ike and because of Americans and Ike the war was won!!!
@@ak9989 You really need to read history books, ignorance is no excuse. Perhaps you will read about the Yanks not coming in to the war until Peral Harbour was attacked by the Japanese in December 1941. While Britain the last free bastion of Europe and North Africa and Montgomery of the Eighth Army, had been fighting since 1939.. I will be visiting Arnhem and Oosterbeek in the next few days, to commemorate the battle and those who died. As an ex British soldier and veteran of recent wars you only watched on TV or maybe a You Tube documentary. Perhaps respect for your liberators should be forth coming..
@@ak9989 Nonsense. You joined 3 years late, and after that the Brits and Canadians were fighting all of Germanys best troops in France from Caen. You (US) got slaughtered at Cherbourg and Metz etc!
This was all Monty
Well Bully for you😒 I'm an American and you know what I don't care about your opinion and I don't think Most Americans do either😁