Market Garden 1944 "On this website we will not try to provide you with an all-inclusive report about the battle that took place. We will try to give you an impression through the recollections of men and women that where involved in this battle. We will not focus only on the battle."
Coming in 2014: 70th Commemoration of Market garden 1944-2014
You can find the info about the 2014 commemoration here.
800 photos from market garden here in Dutch archives.
Coming in 2014: 70th Commemoration of Market garden 1944-2014
You can find the info about the 2014 commemoration here.
800 photos from market garden here in Dutch archives.
"Now, the desperate telegram calling for reinforcements has come to light."
"The main problem the British men faced was the unexpected encounter of two elite German Panzer tank divisions that happened to be resting in Arnhem."More here.
Another video: World War Two: Operation Market Garden 1944
(Photo, right) British prisoners captured in the suburbs of Arnhem, September 26, 1944
The book, "A Bridge Too Far"
Below: Short clip from the TV series, Band of Brothers
http://www.csupomona.edu/~rosenkrantz/paratroop/newspaper.htm
The trailer from the film A Bridge Too Far
The book, "A Bridge Too Far"
Below: Short clip from the TV series, Band of Brothers
http://www.csupomona.edu/~rosenkrantz/paratroop/newspaper.htm
The trailer from the film A Bridge Too Far
Several eyewitness accounts of the Waal crossing in the book, Strike and Hold
Press account: NAZIS DIED LIKE FLIES IN BATTLE OF NIJMEGEN BRIDGE, over the river Waal.
Tuesday October 10, 1944, by the Indianapolis Times Foreign Correspondent.
Rosenkrantz, with a machine gun squad, was in position at the northern end of the bridge when suddenly a whole battalion of German infantry, unaware that the crossing had been made and intent on escaping back toward Germany, started across in marching formation, three abreast. The small band of paratroopers, outnumbered more than 10 to one, waited until the bridge was clogged with Germans from end to end and then, revealing their commanding position, called on the advance foe to surrender. Instead, the Germans began throwing hand grenades.
Press account: NAZIS DIED LIKE FLIES IN BATTLE OF NIJMEGEN BRIDGE, over the river Waal.
Tuesday October 10, 1944, by the Indianapolis Times Foreign Correspondent.
Rosenkrantz, with a machine gun squad, was in position at the northern end of the bridge when suddenly a whole battalion of German infantry, unaware that the crossing had been made and intent on escaping back toward Germany, started across in marching formation, three abreast. The small band of paratroopers, outnumbered more than 10 to one, waited until the bridge was clogged with Germans from end to end and then, revealing their commanding position, called on the advance foe to surrender. Instead, the Germans began throwing hand grenades.
German units opposing the British at Arnhem were the 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions. Here are history summaries of these two units:
The 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen
10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" German WW2 documentary on Frundsberg
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