Arnhem

Following the initial successes of D Day the Allied advance began to develop supply problems and eventually halted at the Dutch/Belgian border at the beginning of September 1944.

In order to break the deadlock, Field-Marshall Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding Twenty-First Army Group, the northern ‘prong’ of the Allied advance, proposed early in September, 1944, using airborne troops to make a daring leap over the German defences and open up the way for a mass advance by the Allied armour into Germany. British and American parachutists and glider-borne troops would land in strength behind the German lines in Holland, capture bridges over the Meuse, Waal and Lower Rhine, and hold them while Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey’s British Second Army, led by XXX Corps, poured through Holland into Germany. Montgomery persuaded Eisenhower to support his plan, which went ahead under the codename MARKET GARDEN”.

If  successful the operation would establish an extended supply line as far as the last bridge at Arnhem. The great natural barrier, the Rhine, would have to be crossed, and the Ruhr and the rest of Germany would lie open to the Second Army with no more natural obstacles in the way.

Despite an outstanding valiant and heroic attempt by the British they were unable to ‘hold until relieved’ by the Second Army and, in the name of Cornelius Ryan’s famous book and subsequent Hollywood movie, it tragically proved to be ….. “A Bridge Too Far….”

  

All Operation Market Garden Trips are £399 per guest. Plus £30 a night single room supplement, where applicable. It is a mobile trip travelling up XXX Corps’ “Hell’s Highway” seeing the DZ and LZ and staying at Nijmegen and Arnhem.

Next Trip Dates:

July 13th to 15th 2012

September 28th to 30th 2012

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