All battles
17–25 September 1944
Operation Market Garden
Western Front · Liberation of the Netherlands · Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, Netherlands
Historical overview
An airborne carpet was laid to seize a corridor of bridges into the Netherlands; the final bridge at Arnhem proved a bridge too far.
What happened
US airborne divisions took Eindhoven and eventually Nijmegen, but British 1st Airborne at Arnhem met refitting SS panzer units, held the north end of the bridge for four days and was largely destroyed or captured.
Historical event
Operation Market Garden
Battle / campaign
Liberation of the Netherlands
Productions
4 titles
Perspectives
Allied · Multiple perspectives
