Operation Market Garden Order Of Battle
The goal of the operation was to secure the key bridges over three wide rivers in the netherlands (maas/meuse, waal and rhine, respectively) in order to outflank the heavy german defences of the siegfried line (westwall) which protected heartland germany beyond the rhine.
Operation market garden order of battle. This is the complete order of battle of allied and german forces involved during operation market garden allied forces. But at arnhem the tide of battle has already turned. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the allied expeditionary force.
The airborne operation was undertaken by the first allied airborne army with the land operation by xxx corps of the british second army. The following is a complete order of battle for allied and german units in the market garden area. Operation market garden was one of the largest allied operations of the second world war.
Operation market garden was an allied operation during the second world war that lasted from the 17th to the 25th september 1944. Considered a gamble, especially coming from the cautious montgomery, its level of risk and probability of success were questioned by Operation market garden allied order of battle command decision test of battle by jeff glasco (copyright 2017) 3 jeeps glider pilots/1st airlanding light artillery/no.
The diagram below shows the order of battle and chain of command as they were at the start of operation market garden. Eisenhower was supreme commander of the supreme headquarters. Operation market garden, which includes the battle for arnhem, in september 1944, was the largest airborne battle in history, being bigger than operation mercury, the german airborne invasion of crete in 1941, which was the only successful strategic airborne operation of world war two.
For the operation the first allied airborne army (faaa) was placed under direct command of the british 21st army group, commanded by bernard montgomery. Operation market garden was a strategic plan proposed by british field marshal bernard l. Operation market garden order of battle.
Jump to navigation jump to search. Operation market garden was a tactical defeat for the allies, as it failed to achieve all its objectives. The bulk of these occurred in the british 1st airborne division which began the battle with 10,600 men and saw 1,485 killed and 6,414 captured.