Operation Market Garden | Animated History

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Sources:
Beevor, Anthony, The Battle of Arnhem; The Deadliest Airborne Operation of WWII, New York, New York: Penguin Random House LLC, 2018
Frost, Major-General John, A Drop Too Many, London: Buchan & Enright, Publishers, 1980
Hastings, Max, Armageddon; The Battle for Germany 144-45, London: Macmillan, 2004
Kershaw, Robert J., ‘It Never Snows in September’, Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, 2004

Music:

Curb your Enthusiasm Theme

The New Order by Aaron Kenny

Antonio Salieri, Twenty six variations on La Folia de Spagna
London Mozart Players
Matthias Bamert, as conductor

[TheArmchairHistorian]

armchairhistorian to 500 500!

This has been the hardest video for us to make! Let us know if you want longer videos from now on (12-15 minutes). If there is any misinformation or anything that needs clarification please let me know and I will add it to a corrections list.
Corrections:
1. Spelling error at 8:22, written "arugably" instead of "arguably."
2. At 7:46 we say that Jim is a Brigadier General, but he's wearing two stars on his uniform as a Major General in the portrait.
3. 12:45 Should have been 107th Panzer Brigade, not division.
4. Pronounced Staffordshire, not Stratfordshire.

[Cobretsov]

Some general: We will be home by Christmas.
Great War veterans: Hey I have seen this one. It is classic.

[aporlarepublica]

"We could end this war by Christmas" Most incorrect military utterance ever.

[Yungbsao]

Man, that "Out of ammunition. God save the King" transmission sent me chills

[mushroom]

I'm Dutch, we're not 70% rivers, but instead 90% water

[squamish]

I talked to a guy who lives in my building who went to the same university as me, 50 years earlier. (When tuition was $50 a semester!) I found out that he is a veteran of Market Garden. He served in the Canadian air force and dropped supplies during the battle.

"It was a disaster. That was Montgomery."

"The flak was so thick you could walk on it."

A plane next to his was carrying mines. It was hit by flak and exploded. There were eight men onboard. "I was friends with all those guys. That's life."

EDIT: RIP Ken Walker, 1923-2018.

[Malidictus]

You know what really eats at me when I watch videos like these? The Discovery Channel used to show a lot of really good historical documentaries done very much in this style, except using unrelated stock footage under the narration, rather than using animated backgrounds. Most of what I know about WW2 and a few other conflicts throughout history comes from those show. And yet these days when I tune into the Discovery Channel, it's all Reality Shows. Buying storage lockers, fixing cars and whatever else. What you've created is exactly what I wish television were like these days.

[matthewlee]

Eisenhower: "You said we'd end the war by Christmas!"
Montgomery: "I never said this Christmas😏..."

[shaneboardwell]

You mean paratroopers IRL aren't as OP as they are in Hoi4?

[sukinero]

World War Veteran: **plays TF2**
World War Veteran: **goes Trolldier**
World War Veteran: *Hey, I've seen this before!*

[kontrrewolucjonista]

You could add how the British and Americans treated general Sosabowski. They blamed him and his brigade for the failure of this operation and forced him to give up his brigade to a British officer. Furthermore, general Sosabowski worked as a storekeeper after the war and his Polish coworkers saluted him everyday.

[technetium]

If your general says the war will end by Christmas run the other way

[leonardoscutari]

Interviewer: "Did you ever lose a battle?"


Montgomery: "No"


*cries in market garden*

[sleppy_piggy]

Allies: I'm gonna do a thing

Weather: *NOPE*

[dthnote]

I just can't hold myself from writing this. What is kind of a fun fact is that as mentioned in video Montgomery blamed Polish brigade led by Stanisław Sosabowski for not arriving fast enough, but Sosabowski was one of the few man against the whole operation from the beginning. He did come back alive but never earned anything for his deeds

[eastonwaguespack]

Hehehehe
“I’ve never lost a battle”
-Montgomery during a post war interview

[mexicoball]

Market Garden is literally every paradrop ops ever in HOI4

[polev]

Allied high command: So guys, we need to end this war by Christmas. Any ideas?


Bernard Montgomery: LeTs DrIvE ThE EnTiRe ArMy DoWn A sInGlE lAnE hIgHwAy.

[randez_]

My grandpa lived in Son when the paratroopers dropped. He was about 13 years old and his children's perspective on those days were quite interesting. He explained how he snuck out with his friends to go find dead Germans, to steal their grenades off their bodies. Weeks later, when the fighting was done, they used those grenades to fish in the canal. He remembered it as an exciting time.

[dansmith]

Out of Ammunition. God save the King. The man that said this also took an umbrella into battle