bigpigeon.us webpage WW II - Germany > ETO > Arnhem & Antwerp > Arnhem - Market Garden, updated by RAC 4 Oct 2020.
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Operation Market Garden was a British and American attempt to seize bridges across the lower Meuse/Maas and Rhine Rivers to outflank the northern end of the Siegfried Line. If successful, Operation Market Garden would had allowed access to the North German Plain, across which Allied armor could sweep.
Operation Market Garden failed to capture the northernmost bridge, at Arnhem. However, the remainder of the salient remained in Allied hands. The 1st Polish Parachute Brigade also fought and died at Arnhem with the British 1st Airborne Division, but is not mentioned on the accompanying map. |
Operation Market Garden
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Sources for the Arnhem - Market Garden webpage:
Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead - Arnhem - Market Garden
† Brazzle, Delbert Sherman, SN 37-468-247, US Army, Douglas Co., NE
- The webpage header photo British POWs at Arnhem is courtesy of dailyhistory.com.
- I found the Operation Market Garden map at http://www.rememberseptember44.com/plan4.htm.
Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead - Arnhem - Market Garden
- Taken from the bigpigeon.us WW II Dead webarea.
- The majority of Allies who died in Operation Market Garden were British and Polish.
† Brazzle, Delbert Sherman, SN 37-468-247, US Army, Douglas Co., NE
- Co. A, 501st Parachute Inf. Regt., 101st Airborne Div.; KIA 17 Sep 1944 over Retie, 30 miles E of Antwerp, Belgium; Douglas C-47A Skytrain/Dakota #42-100981 shot down by flak; all five crew and ten army airborne pathfinders heading for the Market Garden drop zone N of Eindhoven, Netherlands dead; Arnhem & Antwerp > Arnhem - Market Garden.