Montgomery may have been mathematically correct in that 90% of the distance from the start line at Joe’s Bridge on the Meuse-Escaut Canal to Arnhem Bridge was captured. But other analysts say it was a ...
The Royal Air Force Museum is thrilled to announce its new partnership with Virgin Atlantic, naming the esteemed airline as the Museum’s official airline partner. The collaboration between the RAF ...
Overnight 25/26 September, the battered remnants of the 1st Airborne Division crossed from the north bank to the south bank of the Lower Rhine. Market Garden was over. Oude Kirk [Old Church] – ...
Chapter 2 had set out the two requirements for success over which Montgomery had no control: weak German resistance and good weather. Chapter 3 demonstrated conclusively the fallacy of the first when, ...
The Royal Air Force Museum is thrilled to announce its new partnership with Virgin Atlantic, naming the esteemed airline as the Museum’s official airline partner. The collaboration between the RAF ...
Direct RAF support for Market Garden started on the night of 16/17 September 1944, when 200 Lancasters and 23 Mosquitoes of 1 and 8 Groups, Bomber Command, based in England, bombed 4 Luftwaffe ...
On 17 September 1944, the British First Airborne Army, also incorporating American and Polish troops, launched an attack on major bridges in Holland, most memorably at Arnhem. This bore the name ...
Operation Market Garden, the Allied airborne assault on The Netherlands, was launched on 17 September 1944 in an attempt to capture Arnhem and cross the River Rhine – the last natural barrier ...
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New Acquisition: Fiona Banner’s The Bastard Word Studies (2006-7) ...
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