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| Remembrance: Operation Market Garden 1944 |
| 2023-09-17 |
| [BeachesOfNormandy] “A 90% success.” Operation Market Garden is one of the best-known Allied failures of World War II. A daring, but hastily assembled and extremely risky plan, it was intended to liberate the Netherlands, enter Germany without having to fight through the Siegfried defensive line and bring the war to an end by the Christmas of 1944, all in one fell swoop. The plan, however, was just as badly ridden with problems as it was ambitious: equipment failure, a poor use of airborne troops, bad intelligence, a lack of aggressive spirit by some units and just having too many moving parts that could go wrong all conspired to ultimate defeat. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Wasn't around the same time frame when patton slapped the soldiers and everyone was butthurt? |
| Posted by: Chris 2023-09-17 11:55 |
| #3 There are many examples of great military figures. Monty belongs with the WWI crowd of nabobs. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-09-17 11:29 |
| #2 I'm rereading "Citizen Soldiers" by the late Stephen Ambrose. He details quite well the hubris, bad planning, and fecklessness of Montgomery that lead to the disaster that was Market Garden. The book is well worth reading. I also watched "A Bridge Too Far" last night. Early on while the Germans are planning their defense they are trying to decide where to best place their defenses. They were trying to figure out where the next big offensive would come from and who would lead it. They decide that the next big allied offensive would come from the south and Patton would be in charge. One of the German generals says it has to be Patton. "Not even Eisenhower is that stupid that he would put Montgomery in charge." |
| Posted by: Too Old To Work 2023-09-17 11:26 |
| #1 I really can't think up an operation that Monty was head of that wasn't a collosal fuck up. |
| Posted by: Chris 2023-09-17 10:45 |