Operation Market-Garden Sept. 17, 1944. General Bernard Montgomery's attempt to win the Second World War by himself. Arrogant little Brit pipsqueak. I've known quite a few American WW2 vets who told me flat out "I'd of shot that Limey bastard quicker than I'd shot Hitler''.
On this day in 1944, General Browning of the First Allied Airborne Army, upon landing in the 82nd Airborne DZ, ran across the field to the Reichwald Forest, just inside the German Border, because he wanted to be the first British officer to pee in Germany.