Next month will be the 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden - A Bridge Too Far! I hope you enjoy this video from my trip to Nijmegen and Arnhem. In memory of our brave soldiers of the British, US and Polish Airborne and to the British and Canadian soldiers on the ground. 🙏
@@InTheFootstepsofHeroes indeed , Holland libared in 1944 by the US army the Britch army the Canadians the Polich, the dutch city s Wessem Ophoven Ittervoort Thorn libated by the Belgain brigade Piron , the Island Walcheren libared by the Norvagain and the Belgain commando s
I agree, it wasn't like the scene as depicted in 'A Bridge Too Far'. I credit the 504 PIR due to their heroic river assault near the railway bridge which was instrumental to the capture of the road bridge.
Nice footage and the American 504th PIR were heroic make no mistake, but you cannot claim they jointly captured the road bridge when divisional records show the first troops arrived only at 1915 hours and the Grenadier Guards took it at 1830 hours. It just extends the myth by claiming they jointly took it. Sorry to be pedantic but its an extremely serious error of historical fact. The film was bad enough!
@@OldWolflad If the 82nd had seized Nijmegen bridge on the first day, a bridge they could have walked on whistling Dixie. They would not have needed to have made the boat crossing. They hung around DePloeg instead of moving to the bridge.
@@johnburns4017 In fact Gavin totally ignored the British 43rd Division who were ready with 2 brigades on 20th September 1944 to cross the river as they had been fully trained to do. But Operation Basil' never went ahead because Gavin wanted 504th PIR to do it.
Naast de Grenadier Guards heeft de 505 hard gevochten aan de zuidzijde van de Waalbrug om de tanks te begeleiden naar de brug. Hier hoor of zie je nooit iets van.....
Als uw wil , mag na mijn toe komen in nijmgen ik woon vlak de rivier de Maas in Dukenburg, het zou een eer zijn om jullie te ontmoeten en spreken, het Engels is geen probleem, ik spreek met een canadees accent maar is wel te volgen mvg Rob Klomp nijmegen
Ik ben bloedverwant met canada ik woon in nijmegen ik werkte in ontario in kitchener ik heb ijshockey stiks gemaakt voor de nhl ,elke keer als ik een stick maakte ,dacht aan de canadese militare die mijn land en stad hebben bevreid voor altijd canada ❤ nijmgen is een stad die in geschiedenis staat geschreven als vrontstad en een gevaarlijk stad in de oorlog overal duitse snippers dus daarom heeft het een halfjaar geduurt om nijmegen te bevrijden
The Europeans do a better job preserving battlefields that Americans fought on, and keeping up cemeteries with American troops in them than we do at home in waaaay too many circumstances. To see the encroachment of development onto Civil War Battlefields is just disgusting. The hallowed ground at Fredericksburg where so many US troops fell is covered with houses. The areas where the battles in Northern Virginia were fought (Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and others in that area) are likewise covered with houses and subdivisions. Disgraceful. One thing we have plenty of in they country is land and space, develop ground elsewhere for subdivisions, strip centers, shopping malls and warehouses, don't put them on Civil War and Revolutionary War hallowed ground. Donate to or volunteer with The American Battlefield Trust. They are doing their best to preserve ground where American soldiers fell, which is the most hallowed ground of all.
