Failed British airborne operation in Arnhem, Netherlands. Part of Operation Market Garden
Battle of Arnhem
Part of Operation Market Garden
Aerial reconnaissance photo of the Arnhem road bridge taken by the Royal Air Force on 19 September, showing signs of the British defence on the northern ramp and wrecked German vehicles from the previous day's fighting.
Roy Urquhart Stanisław Sosabowski John Frost (POW)
Walter Model Wilhelm Bittrich
Strength
1 reinforced airborne division 1 parachute infantry brigade RAF supply flights Limited support from XXX Corps in later stages
Initially equivalent to: 1 Kampfgruppe 1 armoured division*
Casualties and losses
Approx 1,984 killed 6,854 captured**
Approx 1,300 killed 2,000 wounded**
*More details of the German strengths can be found in the German forces section **More detailed information is available in the losses sections
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Operation Market Garden
Joe's Bridge
Nijmegen
Arnhem
Berlin
Pegasus
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Liberation of the Netherlands
Market Garden
Joe's Bridge
Nijmegen
1st Arnhem
Berlin
Pegasus
Nijmegen salient
Scheldt
Breskens
Hoogerheide
Walcheren
Infatuate
Overloon
Putten
Pheasant
Broekhuizen
Blackcock
Kapelsche Veer
Texel
Amherst
Keystone
2nd Arnhem
Groningen
Otterloo
Manna & Chowhound
Chronology of the liberation
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British airborne forces operations of the Second World War
1st Airborne Division
Biting
Freshman
North Africa
Turkey Buzzard
Ladbroke
Fustian
Slapstick
Arnhem
Doomsday
6th Airborne Division
Tonga
Caen canal and Orne river bridges
Merville Gun Battery
Mallard
Bréville
Bure
Varsity
2nd Parachute Brigade
Hasty
Rugby
Manna
The Battle of Arnhem was a battle of the Second World War at the vanguard of the Allied Operation Market Garden. It was fought in and around the Dutch city of Arnhem, the town of Oosterbeek, the villages Wolfheze and Driel and the vicinity from 17 to 26 September 1944. The Allies were poised to enter the Netherlands after sweeping through France and Belgium in the summer of 1944, after the Battle of Normandy. Operation Market Garden was proposed by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, who favoured a single push northwards over the branches of the Lower Rhine River, allowing the British Second Army to bypass the Siegfried Line and attack the Ruhr. US Airborne troops were dropped in the Netherlands to secure bridges and towns along the line of the Allied advance. Farthest north, the British 1st Airborne Division landed at Arnhem to capture bridges across the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine), supported by men of the Glider Pilot Regiment and the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade. The British XXX Corps were expected to reach the British airborne forces in two to three days.
The 1st Airborne Division landed some distance from its objectives and was hampered by unexpected resistance, especially from elements of the 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions. Only a small force was able to reach the Arnhem road bridge while the advance of the main body of the division was stopped on the outskirts of the town. XXX Corps was unable to advance north from Nijmegen in the Battle of Nijmegen as quickly as planned and the British airborne troops were not relieved according to schedule. After four days, the small British force at the bridge was overwhelmed and the rest of the division trapped in a small pocket north of the river. The paratroops could not be sufficiently reinforced by the Poles or XXX Corps when they arrived on the southern bank, nor by Royal Air Force supply flights. After nine days of fighting, the remnants of the division were withdrawn in Operation Berlin. The Allies were unable to advance further with no secure bridges over the Nederrijn and the front line stabilised south of Arnhem. The 1st Airborne Division lost nearly three quarters of its strength and did not see combat again.
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