Operation Market Garden Research Paper

This is your resource to the largest airborne assault in history. Operation Market Garden took place between September 17 to September 25 and it was the largest airborne assault in history. It help open the Rhur the most industrial part of Germany up to attack. Operation Market Garden was called 90% success. Operation market garden was an airborne invasion of the Rhine land. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Montgomery had led the ally forces in Africa he had won the battle of El Alma and had pushed the Axis forces out of Africa. The goal of the operation was to take the Rhur land the main industrial part of Germany and to open up the heart of Germany for an invasion.
To do this the British assembled the XXX Corps, 3 airborne divisions, and 1 airborne brigade. The Commanders were Lt. General Brain Horrocks, Major General Maxwell Taylor, Brigadier General Stanislaw Sosaabowski, Major General
Early in the morning 60% of the airborne soldiers were loaded into planes. 40% of the soldiers came on the 2 day but do to aircraft problems and also due to some being shot down not all the troops could get to the battle. They dropped in the daylight and most troops made to the ground. One solider from the 101st said that. When we hit the ground it was a mess but Captain Davis told got us into fire teams and we marched to our objective. When we got there we quickly overran the town and the captain took a house on the hill as a command post. When the captain was shot he said to the medic “Hurry up their gaining on us.” The 101st captured 4/5 of their bridges on the first day. But the 5th one was blown up. 82 secured its 2 bridges. The 508 regiment was supposed to take the main highway at Nijmegen. They were supposed to move out on the first day but due to bad communications they didn’t move out till the next day. During to the delay the Germans reinforced their positons. When the 508 attack they took heavy losses and had to