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The biggest Parachute attack ever in World
We are fortunate to spend the day in and around Arnheim one of the biggest battlefields and shall we say notorious of Ww2
Many reputations were bruised here and let me take you through
Basically old Motgomery wanted to do a surgical strike through German lines over the Rine and attack the Ruhr area from the north as a surprise to Hitler to end the war sooner an to be first into Berlyn before the Russians
Any case a massive operation was launched an almost 12000 troops and tons and tons of equipment was successfully inserted and safely on the ground by the afternoon of Sunday the 17-Sept
The Germans were initially caught of guard and sacrifices bridges further south but at Arnheim they regrouped under that notorious war Horse Genl Model
Gen Model quickly organized a dispirited almost beaten German army on the retreat since Normandy landings and very dis organized
He had only two divisions of SS Pantzer divisions available and was later reinforced with a Parachute BN from Germany total of 3000 men
But he had that new Tigertank with the heavy punch
Fighting evolved into house to house fighting which is very difficult to clear but the Germans had a new teckniqe of
Shooting a HE round into the house /building the British were hiding and then fired smoke shells into the hole
In that way they smoked the British out like you smoke out sewer rats
Any case like all big airborne operations o know of always end or near end in disaster
The support of the British Pantzer under the Guards was not fast enough an just could not make it in time due to logistics food and fuel and lack of sleep
The British then beat a retreat over the Rine with the lost of 1800 men
Summary
All parachute drops I know of ended on disasters due to logistics
Arnheim- Vietnam French at Due To-and our own little disaster in Angola operation Moskou
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