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Operation Market-Garden 1944 (1)
- The American Airborne Missions
Engelsk Paperback
Operation Market-Garden 1944 (1)
- The American Airborne Missions
Engelsk Paperback

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Overshadowed by the dramatic British failure at Arnhem, the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were a vital component of Operation Market-Garden and succeeded in capturing their objectives at Eindhoven and Nijmegen.

In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features that otherwise might delay the advance of British tanks towards the bridge.

The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions succeeded in their tasks of capturing the vital bridges at Eindhoven at Nijmegen in the face of fierce German resistance. However, the delays caused to the British armored advance, combined with stronger than expected fighting at Arnhem led to the withdrawal of the remnants of the British 1st Airborne Division in one of the Western Allies’ most costly defeats of World War II.

Contemporary photographs, maps and detailed color artwork complement extensive archival research that reveals the successes of those American airborne missions, largely overshadowed by the failure of the operation as a whole.







Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
96
ISBN-13:
9781782008163
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1782008160
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Udg. Dato:
20 aug 2014
Længde:
7mm
Bredde:
184mm
Højde:
249mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
20 aug 2014
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