Good morning all & OTD in 1944, Operation Market Garden began: a daring plan for airborne landings behind German lines to secure the River Rhine crossings, which would be secured by an Allied armoured thrust to liberate Holland & secure bridges which, sadly, would be 'too far' 
Market Garden’s failure was a rare Intelligence driven failure. The actual combatants fought with extraordinary bravery to try and bring a swift end to the war. All the Allied paratroopers should be very proud of their history, how bravely they fought, and what....almost....was
Excellent map of Op Market Garden AO. The irony of General Student's own Fallschirmjäger paratroopers to East. An ambitious plan that failed because of Intelligence & Plans not thinking through the 'known unknowns'. Weird given Allied experiences of the German defences to date.
Market Garden’s failure was blamed unfairly on paratrooper General Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning. Browning was married to the novelist Daphne du Maurier. Paratrooper berets were maroon as maroon was her favourite colour. When Browning died, DduM kept his uniform on her valet stand
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