Operation Market Garden 1944
It was the brainchild of field marshal sir bernard law montgomery and strongly supported by winston churchill and franklin roosevelt.
Operation market garden 1944. Operation market garden was a failed world war ii military operation fought in the netherlands from 17 to 25 september 1944. The airborne part of the operation was undertaken by the first allied airborne army with the land operation by xxx corps of the british. Operation market garden was an airborne operation conducted september 17 25 1944 during world war ii in an attempt to capture bridges over the rhine.
Operation market garden which includes the battle for arnhem in september 1944 was the largest airborne battle in history being bigger than operation mercury the german airborne invasion of crete in 1941 which was the only successful strategic airborne operation of world war two. In 1944 the allies seemed to have the upper hand in the war until they attempted to take three cities at once from the germans in operation market garden. Operation market garden launched in september 1944 was an unsuccessful allied offensive mainly fought in the netherlands.
It was the largest airborne operation in history up to that time.