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In September of 1944, Easy Company paratrooper Pfc. David Webster poses for the camera with the local population in Eindhoven, Netherlands. 🪂 @PieceJake on the colorization 🎨

Operation Market Garden has fascinated me for years. I first learned about it from playing the old computer game "Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far". This was the same year I first saw "Saving Private Ryan" and played Axis and Allies. Needless to say, it started a lifelong obsession with WW2! So in this operation, the British and Americans launched a ground and airborne invasion of the German-occupied Netherlands, hoping to grab bridges across the Rhine and get into Germany itself. This was September 1944, so after D-Day but before the Bulge and Remagen Bridge. I love the idea of paratroopers being landed ahead of a major offensive and needing to race to their objectives and dig in while the main force arrives. The fact that the campaign focused on a series of bridges along a single highway makes it quite easy to visualise and strategise for. It seems clear in hindsight why the operation failed - it was far too ambitious and didn't take into account the huge reserves of SS Panzer units (mostly without tanks btw), Fallschirmjaeger, Luftwaffe ground troops and other assorted Wehrmacht units. The British paratroopers in Arnhem (the final bridge) were cut off for a long time and forced to surrender by superior German forces. But in the immediate aftermath of Market Garden, what did people blame for its failure? The Poles. General Sosabowski's 1st Independnt Parachute Brigade had been landed to reinforce the British in Arnhem. They too were facing superior forces and had to cross a river in rubber boats to reach their objective. A tall order for any unit. The Poles fought valiantly but could not achieve their mission. Blaming the Polish Brigade for the failure of a multi-division operation is just so completely unfair. Especially considering that these guys were actually hoping to drop into Warsaw and assist their own countrymen in winning independence from Germany and the Soviet Union. The Polish paratroopers are awesome and really deserve their own game. And they shouldn't cop the heat for Monty's over-the-top plan!

This game was really something. Laying in ambush, waiting for the right moment to strike. Supressing enemy before action. Morale system.. it was so good and ahead of its time (videogame-wise). Hell, even my games took the core mechanics from Close Combat ❤️

Wounded, captured, unbowed. 3/4 of the 1st Airborne Division has been captured, killed, wounded, or is missing. Around 1,500 are dead. Out of ammo and overrun by tanks, the remaining wounded survivors of Frost's force at Arnhem Bridge are captured. The operation's primary objective is lost because the ground relief column took too long. Was it impossible from the very start? #MarketGardenLive (19/21)

A second Medal of Honor in Operation Market Garden.... Near Oosterhout, Pvt. John R. Towle runs into an open field to single-handedly neutralize a half-track with his rocket launcher before being mortally wounded. Flank attacks freeze the tanks from advancing to help Oosterhout. "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 21 September 1944, near Oosterhout, Holland. The rifle company in which Pvt. Towle served as rocket launcher gunner was occupying a defensive position in the west sector of the recently established Nijmegen bridgehead when a strong enemy force of approximately 100 infantry supported by two tanks and a half-track formed a counterattack. With full knowledge of the disastrous consequences resulting not only to his company but to the entire bridgehead by an enemy breakthrough, Pvt. Towle immediately and without orders left his foxhole and moved 200 yards in the face of intense small-arms fire to a position on an exposed dike roadbed. From this precarious position Pvt. Towle fired his rocket launcher at and hit both tanks to his immediate front. Armored skirting on both tanks prevented penetration by the projectiles, but both vehicles withdrew slightly damaged. Still under intense fire and fully exposed to the enemy, Pvt. Towle then engaged a nearby house which nine Germans had entered and were using as a strongpoint, and with one round killed all nine. Hurriedly replenishing his supply of ammunition, Pvt. Towle, motivated only by his high conception of duty which called for the destruction of the enemy at any cost, then rushed approximately 125 yards through grazing enemy fire to an exposed position from which he could engage the enemy half-track with his rocket launcher. While in a kneeling position preparatory to firing on the enemy vehicle, Pvt. Towle was mortally wounded by a mortar shell. By his heroic tenacity, at the price of his life, Pvt. Towle saved the lives of many of his comrades and was directly instrumental in breaking up the enemy counterattack." #MarketGardenLive (20/21)

Hitler and other top Nazis inspect a scale model of a planned triumphal arch in Berlin, circa 1939.

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The first British paratroopers have just reached the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem, the legendary "bridge too far."

On 17 September 1939, the Red Army invaded Poland without declaring war, breaching the Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact, set to last until 1945. Poland’s international protests were largely ignored, initiating its fourth partition. The invasion, a consequence of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on 23 August 1939, led to the Katyń massacre, mass deportations of Poles to Siberia, civilian atrocities, and widespread plunder. Poland was caught between two ruthless war machines.

Killed today but not forgotten. “Trooper William Edmond (British Army): Served with the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron. He was shot and killed on the first day of the landings. His grave at the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery famously became known because a local 9-year-old Dutch girl, Willemien Rieken, tended to it for 75 years until her own passing.”

H Hour is here. It's 1 pm in Holland. Operation Market Garden has officially begun. The fate of millions hangs in the balance. This massive Allied military operation aims to create a fast invasion route into northern Germany by bypassing the heavily fortified German Siegfried Line. If it works, it will save countless lives, and the war will surely be over by Christmas. The plan aims to seize a 64-mile (103 km) corridor of key bridges across major rivers and canals in German-occupied Netherlands. The Two Halves: "Market": The airborne phase. More than 34,000 paratroopers and glider troops from the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, the British 1st Airborne Division, and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade will be dropped behind enemy lines to capture vital bridges." "Garden": The ground phase. The British Second Army's XXX Corps will advance rapidly up a single main highway to link up with the airborne forces and push across the Rhine River. Will it work?

Gene Metcalfe, possibly the last living 82nd Airborne veteran who jumped into Holland 82 years ago. Now 103.

Why I love WW2. So many badasses. Right now the joint youngest US division commander of the war, aged 37, is preparing for his fourth combat jump. Sicily, Italy, Normandy and tomorrow HOLLAND. The lives of more than ten thousand men in his hands. A truly great American - just 37. Good luck tomorrow Jumpin Jim.

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The view from the Hurricane section of the Big Wing at yesterday’s Duxford Battle of Britain display.

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Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, walking across a footbridge in Igney, France, 22 September 1944. #WWII #WW2

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