Operation Market Garden

[ArgyllB]

Assess the Courses of Action available to 1 (BR) AB Div on 20 Sep 44

In answering the question you may wish to consider:

What were some of the options?
Reinforce from the air with Polish Para Bde.
Why drop on the south bank at Driel?
What was the effect?
Why did Sosabowski object and then agree?
Reinforce from the ground from XXX Corps.
Why 43rd Div? (Dorsets and Cornish LI)
What was the plan?
Why did it fail?
Withdrawal of the division.
Who gave the order to withdraw and why?
What was the psychological effect?

[dot.hawkes]

have you not had any course material on this ? Surely you should have been doing the research and reading up on it. have you looked in google scholar ?

[pmjd2000]

I have the DS pink with the answer!

[derekpara]

I could fully answer this for you but it is obviously part of your course work - so find out for yourself; you will learn more.

[gizakloo]

Hang on a mo, I'll just go & ask Dad - he was there with 1st Airborne. On second thoughts he probably couldn't care less. He's probably just glad he was one of the 20% who got back - and so am I. I was born at the end of June 1945 - & I don't need help to work that one out!