Market Garden Tribute

	Duration: 05:43 minutes Upload Time: 06-12-18 13:22:22 User: Necramonium :::: Favorites
Description: On 17 September 1944 thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines. Their goal: to secure to bridges across the rivers in Holland so that the Allied army could advance rapidly northwards and turn left into the lowlands of Germany, hereby skirting around the Siegfried line, the German defence line. If all carried out as planned it should have ended the war by Christmas 1944. Unfortunately this daring plan, named Operation Market Garden, didn't have the expected outcome. The bridge at Arnhem proved to be 'a bridge too far'. After 10 days of bitter fighting the operation ended with the evacuation of the remainder of the 1st British Airborne Division from the Arnhem area. This is my tribute to those men and women who lost their lifes at Operation Market Garden... In total 2.000 German soldiers (6,000 wounded in action),6,484 British soldiers (851 MIA)(6,450 POW),3.664 American soldiers and 102 Polish soldiers where killed in action. Civilian casualties are unknown... The music is from the movie A Bridge Too Far.
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Necramonium ::: Favorites if anyone is interested in market garden the video game Brothers in Arms:Hell's Highway is releasing this year,you play a soldier leading a squad through Operation Market Garden,look it up here on youtube or on google... 07-08-20 10:58:57 _____________________________________________________
funkmasterjee ::: Favorites The British military put most of the blame for the faliure at Arnhem on Gen. Sosabowski and the Poles. They were made into a scapegoat and the British top brass should have been ashamed of themselves for trying to cover their OWN failiure. A disgraceful episode 07-08-19 15:01:01 _____________________________________________________
Mattythewelshman ::: Favorites I wouldn't say typical British, on this occassion however your right. Montgomery and all those bloody Generals screwed up. 07-07-21 13:27:50 _____________________________________________________
Mattythewelshman ::: Favorites How could you not mention the French ;)... what a silly post. 07-07-21 13:26:26 _____________________________________________________
gekkemike ::: Favorites thats bullshit allong side the russian soldiers that invaded berlin where polish soldiers. and two flags where hanging on hitlers headquaters in berlin when it was conquered you had the soviet and the polish flag. so not only the russians conquered berlin 07-07-08 12:13:45 _____________________________________________________
Calum169 ::: Favorites Makes me proud to be British wen i hear about the paras and Arnhem! 07-07-07 14:43:12 _____________________________________________________
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sioc88 ::: Favorites not true ... only the russians could have ended ww2 someone had to take berlin .. and only the russians where willing to sustain the losses to take it 07-07-04 17:57:41 _____________________________________________________
buzzseb3 ::: Favorites don't you forget some countries ?? 07-06-30 08:48:57 _____________________________________________________
cvc42 ::: Favorites gerben141...if you only knew how stupid you are...I'm reading your "clever" posts and wonder how such a great country as Netherlands can bread idiots like yourself...  Go away ... and don't spam this video post. 07-05-27 04:22:33 _____________________________________________________
gerben141 ::: Favorites Europe is : The UK , The Netherlands , Scandinavia and Germany . The rest are trade friends and nothing more . It just does't work , we can trade and wat ever but were not buddies ! 07-05-25 15:24:02 _____________________________________________________