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Operation Market Garden
 * On September 17, 1944, there was not one cloud in the sky, but the largest airborne invasion in history. Approximately 20,000 #|men jumped out of airplanes and were falling out of the sky. Operation Market Garden as they called it was planned to take place near Arnhem in Holland. Troops from America and Great Britain fell from the sky ready to fight. Market Garden was one of the boldest plans of World War Two. There were many bridges, rivers and canals along the the Dutch/German border.**

media type="custom" key="25394332" Under the commandment of American Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Commander General Bernard Montgomery only had 7 days to prepare for this operation. Troops were dropped of 7 miles away for the battle field so they would not ruin the element of surprise. As soon as all the British and American troops landed they made sure to secure the numerous canals as well as three #|major wall barriers that included The Maas, The Waal (the main downstream branch of the Rhine) and The Neder Rijn (part of the lower Rhine)



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While the Americans secured the bridges, the British started to make there toward. Not far into there Journey the British were attacked by German troops. During this time the British troops found out that there radios were not working properly and that they had no connections with the Americans back at the landing sight. By the end of the first day of fighting the British had captured the northern end of the road bridges across the Rhine River. As to there surprise most of the bridges had been blown up before they were even captured.=====

On the third day of this mission with Americans fighting in the streets trying to reach the bridge across the might River Waal. What was left for the Americans to take over was Arnhem and it seemed that operation market garden was going to succeed. But there was soon a road block in this journey when the american troops could not get across the bridge to Arnhem. The crops commander General Horrocks told the Americans to #|attack across the River Waal event though this attack was extremely costly. Half of the troops were killed or injured during this part of the invasion.

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The Americans did all they could to try and get to Arnhem now it was all up to the British. But as the Germans began to move more of their tanks in to the town in which the British were fighting they started tearing down the houses in which the British were in. The British had no food and they were very low on ammunition Allied forces were forced to abandon their positions near the bridge they had to fight their way out. Germany gained control of the river and Operation Market Garden had failed costing the many lives of service men.

__Questions for Test__ 1. Operation Market Garden was to be the largest airborne operation of the war. How were the majority of the men to land? 2. What was the name of the British General commander? 3.What was the name of the American General commander?

4. What was the name of one of the bridges that the Americans had to capture? []