Preparations For Operation Market Garden, Part 1

September 1944. The Allied armies have shattered the German front in France and driven deep into Belgium, and then, suddenly, they run out of road. Low on fuel, stretched across hundreds of kilometres of supply lines, the advance stalls just short of the Dutch border.Out of that crisis comes Operation Market Garden: the largest airborne operation ever attempted, a daring bid to seize a chain of bridges across Holland and open a path straight into the heart of Germany.In Part One of this two-part opening episode, we follow the argument between Montgomery and Eisenhower that gets the operation approved, the German recovery that nearly closes the door on it before it starts, and the detailed planning of three airborne divisions and a Polish brigade, each given a piece of a hundred-kilometre corridor, and each about to discover just how little room for error the plan allows.This episode lays the groundwork for the series ahead, following the 1st Airborne Division, the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 101st Airborne Division, and XXX Corps through Operation Market Garden, day by day.Part Two continues the story.#MarketGarden #OperationMarketGarden #ABridgeTooFar #Arnhem #WWII #WWIIHistory #MilitaryHistory #Airborne #101stAirborne #82ndAirborne #1stAirborneDivision #XXXCorps #PolishParachuteBrigade #WW2Podcast #HistoryPodcast🔗 Stay connected with us:Website: https://worldwar2-sof.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ww2.sofFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldWar2SOFFacebook Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/WorldWar2SOF/subscribe/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ww2.sofSpotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/worldwar2sof