It sounded from yesterday’s news and comments that at least the planning of Monty’s ill-conceived & ill-fated “Market-Garden” has begun to adversely affect other operations in the area.
Do you know when the actual Market-Garden operation begin and from where to where was it supposed to go? (I think M-G is what the movie, “Bridge too Far” is about.)
Coming up next week. Eisenhower approved the Market-Garden operation yesterday. Montgomery will issue the order to his command on the 14th and the first airborne forces will go in early on the 17th.
As per Wiki: Operation Market Garden (17–25 September 1944) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time.
Yes, “Bridge too Far” is a fictional account of MG.
Yes, the movie A Bridge Too Far is about the operation. It was based on an earlier book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan. It refers to the fact that of the five major bridges they needed to take to get completely across the Rhine, they took four.
MG had two bad effects (besides cutting up British 1st Airborne pretty badly), it stopped any drive to take the Scheldt immediately, devoting those troops to the MG plan, meaning Antwerp will be useless as a port for some time. And it diverted scarce supplies from the American First and Third Armies, who were gaining ground, and diverted them to the British.
XXX Corps basically started on the Albert Canal in Belgium and the target was Arnhem on the far side of the Rhine.