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The allied forces lost more than 17,000 men during operation Market Garden. The number of casualties on the German side was much smaller. The exact number is not clear, but historians estimate that it was arond 10,000 deaths. The Battle of Arnhem lasted from September 17 to the early morning of September 26, 1944. A…
Operation Market Garden culminated in the last Allied defeat of World War II. Many reasons were put forward after the Battle of Arnhem to explain the loss of the Battle of Arnhem. Immediately after the Battle of Arnhem, the British army command blamed the Polish Parachute Brigade. If they had fought harder, Operation Market Garden…
Operation Market Garden culminated in the last Allied defeat of World War II. Many reasons were put forward after the Battle of Arnhem to explain the loss of the Battle of Arnhem. Here you will find part 1 with the first five reasons why Operation Market Garden failed. Below are five more reasons. 6. Browning…
The liberation of Arnhem cannot be separated from the bitter fighting in September 1944 during the Battle of Arnhem. Operation Market Garden aimed to force an Allied breakthrough across the Rhine. Arnhem turned out to be a bridge too far. While British and Polish troops defended the perimeter in Oosterbeek on September 23 1944, the…
Nowadays half of the population of Arnhem lives in Arnhem South, but during the Second World War it was just a small neighbourhood. There were some streets in Malburgen East and there was De Praets in Meinerswijk. It was nothing more than that. Elden was a little further south, but that village was not yet…
When you drive from the Sakharov bridge in the direction of the Velperbroek junction, you cross the site we British troops of the 49th Division crossed the IJssel in the night of April 12-13, 1945. Seven months after the Battle of Arnhem, a second attempt was made to liberate the city. The action had been…
In the night of 12 to 13 April 1945, British troops with amphibious vehicles from Westervoort crossed the IJssel to liberate Arnhem. The German defense of the city was contracted at the Enka factory in the Kleefse Waard, east of the city. It took the Canadians almost all day to expel the troops that had…
The liberation of Arnhem started in the late evening of April 12, 1945 with the crossing of British troops from the Polar Bear Division over the IJssel near Westervoort. On April 15, the soldiers of the 49th Infantry Division reached Burgers’ Zoo and the whole of Arnhem was liberated. The military operation had cost nearly…
The bridge at Arnhem was the main objective of Operation Market Garden. The immediate vicinity of the Rhine Bridge was destroyed during and after the Battle of Arnhem. Except for some old photos, nothing is left of the original buildings. For the first time you can now see where the British fought during the Battle…
An English patrol in the city center of Arnhem. That was still possible in the morning of Monday, September 18. The Germans were aware that the British held the north side of the Rhine Bridge, but organized German troops at the bridge were not yet established. For that reason, Captain Killick had been sent out…
