Operation Market Garden

Number one in a series planned about battles and other historical events. The first video's will focus on WWII battles. More than anything else these first video's are a proof of concept. Therefore I would like to hear your feedback. If you like the video please press thumbs up! And if you are interested in seeing more subscribe.

[praisetheomnissiah]

This whole clusterfuck of an operation and why it failed can best be summed up like this. "I think the Germans had something to do with it." Honestly, no one gives the Germans credit that they were able to put up stiff resistance where necessary and made pivotal moves that ensured the allied offensive became bogged down.

[tpsu]

It was 30th Corps, not the 30th Corpse.

[fhvtxrek]

I bike across the john frost bridge every day!

[uniquity]

good vid, but i cringe everytime he says "corpse" instead of corps XD

[paulbrown]

Corps is a dead body— this is a well intentioned piece disastrously narrated

[KameTurtle_]

Seeing the pictures of the old bridge makes me appreciate Post Scriptums accuracy.

[michaelmorrison]

The 3 airborne divisions totaled ~30, 000 men, not 20K

[JuanPerez-vvlk]

I just watched the movie A Bridge To Far. Excellent movie and Frost was badass

[brians]

It’s a shame, A lot of work went into making this video but I can’t even watch it because the narrator keeps pronouncing corps “corpse”

[deckerhoff]

I don't think Market Garden could have ever worked, there was too much that had to be "perfect" for it to succeed, and everyone knows that in combat nothing ever goes as planned, ESPECIALLY with the unfamiliarity of how to use airborne troops. Even just one blown bridge and the whole element of speed is lost. And asking the Airborne divisions to hold their DZ's for days AND to assault bridges and towns (especially one the size of Arnhem...) is just madness. Doens't matter if you're the Red Devils or 101st or 82nd, paratroopers cant hold an open field against an SS Armored Division, let alone all of Arnhem.

Great video, its always good to see timelapse maps like this to understand complicated situations where units are scattered all over. Trying to read about Market Garden is very confusing, i can only imagine the confusion of the commanders. I think another interesting video would be the Battle of Mogadishu. Its similar to this one where theres a really sketchy plan with almost no backup preparations in case things go wrong. And of course things go very, very wrong.

Oh and by the way "Corps" is pronounced like "core" :)

[RomanRoblox]

Holy fuck never knew that the operation happened like a kilometer away from my house.

[kaaskaasx]

My grandad lived then in arnhem, he survived it and he told me everything about it.... It was a hard battle....

[TangoNevada]

You just summed up a 3 hour movie (A bridge too far) in 7 minutes and saved me a boat load of time.

[johanderuiter]

They encountered the regrouping 9th and 10th Waffen SS Divisions, SS and SS Landstorm units, German Heer's LXXXIV Korps, Kampfgruppe Walther, Kampfgruppe Chill and a good number of other Heer and Luftwaffe field units that showed our friends what a real war is. They cut Hell's Highway on three occassions and long enough to cause a debacle. It wasn't a failure, it was just a test of willpower.

[canuck_gamer]

I've been an amateur historian for 30 years and I have studied this operation as much as any other. At the end of the day, the responsibility has to fall upon Eisenhower because he was the one who allowed it to take place when he really should have known better. Eisenhower should have trusted Bradley by that point and he (Bradley) bitterly objected to this farce. I don't know how history ended up letting Eisenhower off the hook and dumping all the blame on Montgomery but in any case, the commanding officer is always where the buck stops. This never should have been allowed to take place- period.

[bibostin]

Really great video! Makes the subject accessible without thinning out too many details. Looking forward to more.

[craigisbond]

I honestly couldn’t finish the video due to the narrators inability to correctly pronounce “corps”

[Daniel-rmxf]

this is an very important mission for me being dutch, i go to that place and keep imaging what it would be 70 years+ ago

[willemvanbeek]

My grandfather was 17 years old and living in Nijmegen during market garden, sadly he passed away before i was born. I would have loved to hear his story’s

[ncsuor]

I was lucky enough to visit the area. It is a very special place to visit and the Museum is amazing.