Operation Market Garden

Although it ultimately failed to achieve its objectives the determination and courage shown by the airborne troops and the units that assisted them made market garden one of the second world war s 1939 45 most famous battles.

Operation market garden. It was a vast operation that involved flying 10 000 paratroopers behind enemy lines to take eight strategic bridges that crossed the rhine river along the german border with the netherlands. Three towns along the german dutch border would be involved. It was aimed against the netherlands and germany and at that point was the largest airborne operation ever put together.

Operation market garden was a daring and massive offensive into the nazi occupied netherlands that ultimately became a costly failure. Eindhoven nijmegen and arnhem. Operation market garden was an airborne operation conducted september 17 25 1944 during world war ii in an attempt to capture bridges over the rhine.

Operation market garden was an allied operation during the second world war that lasted from the 17th to the 25th september 1944. The airborne operation was undertaken by the first allied airborne army with the land operation by xxx corps of the british second army. Operation market garden was an unsuccessful world war ii military operation fought in the netherlands from 17 to 25 september 1944.

It was the brainchild of field marshal montgomery and strongly supported by winston churchill and franklin roosevelt.