I always look in these films or pictures if I can recognize some places in my hometown of Arnhem and nearby Oosterbeek. . I actualy did in this film . thanks for that ! I dont know what actualy to say but shown gratitude to these young boys whom fought for freedom in our country. Every year they come back to visit their place of nightmare . I hope peace will once find our litle planet earth . so no one have to shoot an other man ever again . ever !! with love Walli
walli396 My wife’s uncle, Arthur Blain, now deceased, was a paratrooper in the drop where they got captured by the Germans-they called it a bridge to far. He visited Holland I think on the 50th anniversary when there was a big celebration.
My late father was also a (British) 1st Allied Airborne paratrooper in that drop & he also visited Holland on the 50th anniversary. One of his most treasured possessions was a book, made for him by the children of a Nijmegen school, thanking him for saving their town. What a brave bunch of men they were.
my great grandad was a paratrooper in arnhem and he got captured prisoner of war and he got released at the end of the war he told me all of his stories but he sadly died in 2016
I wonder if the Dakota shown at 6:53 was that of Flight Lieutenant David Lord who won the posthumous VC at Arnhem for completing his resupply drop despite his starboard engine being in flames. His aircraft crashed before the crew had time to bale out and all the crew were killed except the co-pilot who was thrown clear. My father who was fighting with 4 Para saw it happen and called Flt Lt Lord's action the bravest thing he had ever seen.
My cousin Ross S. Carter C Company 504th PIR wrote extensively about their experiences in Those Devils In Baggy Pants. Leading the Sunset March in his honor was one of the highlights of my life.
@@28pbtkh23Nah most likely the ones who hate their country. And think anyone in a uniform is a bad un. You know those’d that enjoy thier freedom because of these men. Lest we forget.
My late father was part of operation market garden, I never got to go to any reunion with him, a year after he died, my son took me to arnhem as a surprise.
Fascism is a very real enemy today. Fascism is censorship, forced conformity, obedience and rigged elections. Make no mistake it is trying to be born again today.
Trump is a fascist. Unless, perhaps, you think that inciting an insurrection at the Capitol (after losing a free and fair election) is acceptable democratic behavior?
@@noahkidd3359 Hi. Examples please. You stated an example which is legally and factually absurd. Do you have any other other examples of Donald Trup being....a fascist? Do you you know what fascism is?
@@noahkidd3359 do you really believe this? You need to crack open a history book. Trump is against censorship, Biden requiring it. Trump is struggling to secure free elections, Biden struggling to end them. Trump is for free market economy, Biden trying to kill it. Trump wants the US to be independent and democratic, Biden is trying to make it a subservient state under a global, non-democratic (China) world government. Are you literate at all?
My dad is 93 soon said when he was stationed in Germany the stench of death was a reminder of what happened. He says that the German people Didn't understand why the British soldiers didn't hate them. I'm sure some did.. He spoke to some Germans and said it's over.
They are another bunch of brave soldiers who didn’t get the recognition they deserved, Browning actually sent just over 200 to act as a rearguard to give the survivors a chance to get back over to safety, yet you don’t see that in the famous film just an attempt that failed. When it came to them surrendering they had to remove their insignia and borrow gear from the dead British troops otherwise they would have been shot immediately being Polish 🇵🇱. My uncle was badly wounded at the bridge and he was part of the four anti tank guns that were there but never get a mention because the historians like to make out it was PIATS and small arms that they only had to defend themselves with and make the holding out more dramatic.
My Grandfather was a Battery Sgt Major posted at Nijmegen with a battery of cannon. He said "honestly Phil I've never seen so many dead and dying men". Lest we forget.
@5:54 The body hanging out of the car is Generalmajor Friedrich Kussin, commander of Heer personnel in the Arnhem area. When the paras began landing, Kussin met with SS Major Josef Krafft to formulate a strategy. After leaving Kraft's headquarters, Kussin's car took the same route back to Arnhem. They were intercepted by No. 5 Platoon, 'B' Company, 3rd Parachute Battalion, 1st Airborne Division, let by Lt. James Cleminson. The car attempted to reverse to escape. It did no good. The call, and all four occupants, were riddled with rounds. Three of the four occupants were killed outright, driver Gefreiter Jozef Willeke, interpreter Unteroffizier Max Koster, and Generalmajor Kussin himself. Bodyguard Unteroffizier Wilhelm Haupt was shot multiple times and captured by the British. He would die as a prisoner shortly thereafter. For some reason, as the photographers were were filming and snapping photos of the scene, someone thought it was a good idea to take the General's body, and that of his driver, and have them hang out of the car. There are photos of driver Willeke with a rifle curiously placed in one hand, while his body lay upon a second rifle. It wasn't until after the war that Cleminson learned that his command had killed a general.
John Frost, hero of Arnhem, was a military advisor on that movie. He said that during the filming he said to the director, "I'm sorry, this wasn't how it was." To which Attenborough replied, "I know, John, but there's American money behind me, so I have to appeal to American audiences." Hence the many pro-American inaccuracies in the movie!
This kind of generation never to be seen again men where men and women were women and loved each other sadly this country has been destroyed by criminals in power full of hate and darkness for our 4nations .
0:16 These are the people who fought actual fascism. These are the heroes. These are the men that is needed in this petty world we live in today. A modern world so drunk on freedom and prosperity, it must create phoney enemies and false oppressions to fight. The world has not changed, there are REAL enemies out there. But as in 1930s Germany, the rioters, shop looters, book burners, cancellers, propaganda panderers and all in all POND-LIFE, picked the wrong fight. They will be defeated, just like the Nazis were. Totally and unconditionally. Stay strong SILENT MAJORITY.
David Smith. My Father joined the Airborne and was in Operation Market Garden. I always look carefully at the film clips and wonder how he must have felt. Luckily he survived the war.
My father to was at Arnhem he was taken prisoner of war, he joined the army in 1937 as a 17 year old, you went through World War II without a scratch after surviving Dunkirk North Africa, Sicily,When the word came out at Arnhem ,every man from self, he tried to get back to the Allied lines but got captured by the SS, I spent the rest of the war in the POW camp.
Ten film to perełka pierwszy raz mi się wyświetlił niezwykłe ujęcia,i smutne jest to że wielu ludzi widocznych na tym filmie zapłaciło życiem za głupotę i ignorancję najwyższego dowództwa.
My mother older brother was a glider pilot in the operation market garden operation, he was in the first wave on the 17th September 44. he was killed along with 3 others in a ambush on 21st September in Oosterbeek. he was aged 32.
Anthony Malesys wow, I didnt catch that until I saw your comment. It appears so... maybe his static line failed or broke. What always bothered me and made me sad is the yound men who died in training or during the deployment in accidents before they even had the chance to fight. Im grateful for all these men!
The British, Canadians and Australians have been fiercely loyal and brave friends to America in the 20th and 21st Centuries, and have lost many heroes to tyranny and evil. We should keep that in mind whenever we say or do things on the world stage.
5:52 -> the ambushed car of German general Kussin, commander of the Arnhem garrison. He was the 1st German officer to be killed in the operation, and it had to be a general ! Eerily, in the early hours of June 6th 1944, another German general, Wilhelm Falley commanding the 91st Infantry Division was ambushed and killed by troops of the US 82nd Airborne Division !
Would love to see me Dad, But i doubt i could recognize him, Not just with his kit, But he was so young back then. My Dad was in the 1st and my Uncle in the 6th.
1st and 6th Airborne, the best of the best. My Dad, was 12th Battalion, 6th Airborne. D-Day, Pegasus Bridge, Breville, Venlo, Rhine crossing, he was there...
Old Men and Kids! But, there was some aerial photographs showing panzers well-hidden under trees with cammo netting, that's not a good sign. Some Gentleman decided this was not important, and thousands of our lads paid the ultimate prices. God bless the fallen.
Gringo There was no German armour in or around Arnhem on the 17 Sept 1944 - the jump day. It was brought in from Germany over the next days. The RAF have no record of any photographs of German armour.
I have been to Holland for the 60th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden. An incredible experience. I knew men who have jumped into Holland from the 101, 82nd, and British 1st Airborne.
Absolutely fascinating footage, it brought a tear to my eye to think that there are not many of these lads left and soon this will pass from living memory into history. The bravest and toughest soldiers in the British Army; remember them.
The idea was sound, the planning wasn't. The RAF dictated the drop zones based on poor intelligence, which were miles from the objectives. Plan doomed from that point
Ego trip my arse. The plan was a sound plan, a very good plan. There was other factors out of Montys control that didn’t make it the success it could of been, and so nearly was. Like many of us that served in the military, we are fully aware that no plan survives first contact, it’s not a myth.
@@Thorny5718 With the benefit of hindsight: To push XXX Corps up a single elevated road after ignoring sound intel as to the presence of substantial German armor, the selection of DZs eight miles from the objective, RAFs refusal to deliver two sorties on the first day and Brig Gen Gavin's failure to capture the Bridge at Nimigen before it was heavily defended, all contributed to the outcome. Officers at Polish staff college prior to the war who advanced on the single 30 meter road were failed!
Ego trip? Monty suggested the operation, Eisenhower said "I not only approved it, I insisted upon it." Monty wasn't involved in the execution of the operation, it was others. It came within a whisker of success, in which case history would have praised Monty's bold plan.
The heroism of all the Allied troops involved cannot be bettered. But the entire operation was a complete fiasco. Poorly planned at the last minute it could never achieve it's objective.
I was named after my great father ralph. He was a volunteer as he was 27 I believe when he joined. He was 5ft 6 and a paratrooper he was one of the first men on the bridge during the battle he took a bullet to the shoulder and the neck but thought till capture. A American medic tried to amputate his arm but a German doctor told him he could save if In which he did. He suffered terrible conditions as pow he even tried to escape with help from a German but unfortunately got caught and the two people he escaped with were killed. He came back from the war weighing only 6 stone. Everyone in the town knew him and would shake his hand as he walked down the street. He passed away a few years before I was born I never got to meet him but I’m very proud as I got his name from him. He’s an absolute legend.
Wonderful, I joined up and served my nation when I was just a boy. Only because my dad and uncles and my grandfather all served b4 me. It did it to make them proud of me.I served all over the world and on active duty in some not so nice places. I try not to think of the past as we all need to move on. But it was the making of me.I am just a gas man now and keep people safe in a different way. I served in the army air Corps AAC which was formed from the glider and airborne units after the ww2.
Great footage. My Father was a glider pilot for Operation Market Garden. Like many he ended up a POW. i have his prisoner ID card. He eventually came home, married and had 5 children.
I've seen the still photos of General Kussin's body lying half out of his vehicle, didn't know they had a film shot. The views of 4th Parachute Brigade dropping are new to me.
Dear Uncle Len (2nd Lt, para) taken prisoner, years later back home in Selby along side my Uncle Don he threw himself under the rear wheels of a truck in the town square.
Some of this footage actually shows Operation Varsity in March, 1945, but I guess when Theirs is the Glory was made they weren't too bothered about the cross-over.
@@Tributevideo Sure, it's not a huge amount to be fair, but at 6:53 the aircraft going down in flames is a C-46, which was only used by the 313th Troop Carrier Group on one Operation in the ETO which was Varsity. There's further footage at 8:38 of a C-46 in flight with a smoking engine, so it's safe to assume some of the associated footage of Paratroopers gathering on the DZ is from the same sequences.
Indeed,The British carried an advance warfare than their american counterparts... due to financial handicap , the war could have been ended by the British empire vs. the Nazis!
The ignorance in these comments, good lord. HUGE respect for my British comrades and for the Germans as well. They all fought hard and regardless of the outcome, have bigger balls than any clown behind a keyboard who would have surrendered that position after the first offer of truce.
'... any clown behind a keyboard...' And you of course, behind your keyboard, are the bravest of the brave. There's nothing as conteptible as a keyboard 'hero' who leeches on other men's courage to big themselves up.
It was the USA that made the plan for the airborne part of the operation, so you can blame US officers Brereton, Williams, Gavin and Lindquist for compromising it.
Market garden...the brain child of that supreme ass of an arrogance Montgpmery. He could whip anyone he had 3 or 4 times odds against! Give him an even battle 1 on 1 and he was toast!
Monty's idea, Eisenhower approved and insisted upon it going ahead. A sound plan, came very close to success - if only US 82nd AB had taken Nijmegen bridge as planned.
@@renard801 Two things IKE was bending over backward to be a good ALLY after all Britain put up the GIs for spell to finish off the mess.Secondly he had to put on this unified brave front for the Western Allies so the Russians didn't go any farther than necessary. After that debacle even the other britsh officers in allied HQ pointed right at MONTY
This footage was used in the reenactment in 1946 using some of the troops involved 2 years earlier. The film is on You Tube and called "There's was the glory" I think.
Just to clarify on my earlier comment about the radios: I believe the correct ones might have been ordered by MOD, but the manufacturer of the radios, Phillips, sent the wrong ones. Either way, the wrong crystals were knowingly issued to the signalmen before arnherm, according to Theirs is the Glory. The stores keeper told an officer, but he said to issue the wrong crystals anyway. The radios didn't work properly. Google Ernest Hamlett.
I think these might be resupply airdrops, and not paratroopers at that point . the parachutes are not coming out of the planes in a steady stream like paratroopers would, but intermittently like supply bundles being pushed out by an aircrew.
Randy Cheow, if only Gen. Horrocks had been correct... Michael H, that reply was... not very connected to the quote Randy gave. [What?] -or we could have...
'... ...or we could have let Hitler roll over the rest of Europe...' You clearly don't know the speech in which that was said in A Bridge Too Far. You also seem to have no conception of British understatement. Are you an American by any chance?
