Britain's Worst Airborne Disaster: Battle of Arnhem | Animated History
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Bergström, C. (2018). Arnhem 1944, An Epic Battle Revisited: The Lost Victory, September-October 1944. II. Translated by Newton, J. (pbk. Eng. trans. ed.). Eskilstuna: Vaktel Books. ISBN 978-91-88441-49-2.
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www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-arnhem
Bennett, David (2008). A Magnificent Disaster. Casemate. ISBN 978-1-932033-85-4.
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Can you please explain to me why are British ( so called historians ) so committed in saying that Montgomery didn’t have nothing to do with the planning of Market Garden and that the results are the Americans fault. I know that Gavin had his part... but the plan was a horrible plan from the beginning, to much exact timetables, only ONE road can be used and like they didn’t think that the Germans would fight .... I mean, the Gerrys took the whole of Europe but wouldn’t fight in Holland ...
Hello, a video about the Falklands War would be very interesting
Please make a video about the "battle of leyte gulf" (ww2)
Lil' Griff ruins what would otherwise be a smooth narrative. Please never use that gimmick again.
Very nice, subtitulos en español pls?
Expensive miscalculation by Monty whose competition with Patton, drove him to try untried strategies
@Your Average Scotsman All credit to Monty, he won his peerage for a methodical approach in North Africa, at a critical phase of the war, when everyonelse before him had coughed it up.But in France, give me Horrocks anytime
@alex lanning Yet they were never in any competition. Even if they were, Montgomery was winning larger battles compared to Patton, who was screwing up in Lorraine and Metz, while Montgomery was facing and, eventually, beating the Elite SS Panzer Divisions around Caen and forcing his way into Belgium, Holland and, eventually, Germany itself.
@doveton sturdee It was a competition of egos, they were both limelighters
Montgomery didn't regard himself as in any sort of competition with Patton. The idea was put about in the ludicrous 1970 movie. Patton might have thought himself in competition with Montgomery, but there again Patton had many strange ideas. After his awful performance in the Lorraine, Patton was hardly in a position to compare himself with anyone.
Montys Market Garden was a Disaster.... blame it on the Polish
@Your Average Scotsman // I don’t have to prove nothing ... you can remain ignorant or in denial if you want ... but you can also Google Sosabowski and read it. Also, you can find references of it with simple search.
@Carlos colon The burden of proof is on you. If you do not produce any quotes of Monty belittling the Poles, then you're speaking complete lies.
@Your Average Scotsman // I’m not your Teacher nor your Psychiatrist to make you search info and not give it to you as baby food or deal with your denial of facts. You can search it yourself ... no matter if you consider yourself “ Average “ ...
@Carlos colon I will pay you if you can find a direct quote, with multiple sources, of Montgomery EVER regarding the Polish as the sole reasons for Market Gardens failure.
@Your Average Scotsman // read your history... Montgomery actually wrote the letter criticizing Sosabowski and recommending his dismissal
I read a book about Arnhem and when the para's went into the POW camps, they marched as if they were in a parade!, all the other soldiers already in the camp saw them and the general saluted them and they stood to attention and saluted back!
One of the interesting things about this for me is that it all went sour in my hometown of Hechtel appearantly. The allied were supposed to take our town in a day and then start their advance over the highway to hell. It took them a week to take our town, leading to the whole delay. Or so I have been told
More myths perpetuated. In fact, neither Montgomery or Browning put the blame on Sosabowski and the Poles. Both of them blamed the tenacity of the Germans, the weather and lack of time/resources. Additionally, Montgomery also blamed his own mistakes and Browning narrowed it down to the non arrival of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment at Nijmegen due to the weather. Browning disliked Sosabowski personally, and argued for a younger and more flexible Pole to take over but he and Monty NEVER said Market Garden failed to achieve all its goals due to the performance of the Poles. These old myths need to be eradicated. By the way, Browning was got rid of out of the paras before Sosabowski was. Something people conveniently ignore.
The failure of Market Garden was down to Americans failing to take Nijmegen bridges. They were late moving to take the bridge when they landed forcing XXX Corps to halt its advance, which was making good time, to fight to take the bridge. The Americans had one job to do to take the bridges and they failed to do that.
@John Cornell Why does the Wikipedia page on Market Garden say the Germans were 100,000? I thought they only had 12,000 men and a few dozen tanks in Arnhem?
Arnhem failed as well though. Thanks to the RAF refusing to fly closer to Arnhem to drop the paras off in conjuction with the dispersal of drops over days, this meant British 1st Airborne never got to Arnhem in enough strength to make a difference. Frost only had a small area at one end of the bridge. The Germans always controlled the exit ramp. The idea was a large part of Arnhem captured and held, to establish a bridgehead there but that was never achieved as most of 1st Airborne didn't make it. An area from Oosterbeek and then including Hoogkamp, Alteveer, Paasberg and Presikhaaf. This was a very sizeable area, far larger than just the bridge area. It was never even remotely achieved. I guess the Guards Armoured might have linked up to rescue Frost and his men had the Nijmegen bridge been captured and ready for them but the operation was already a failure. The Germans were too strong and held almost all of Arnhem, when the plan was the exact opposite. Cheers.
You can't win them all.
Enticed by the ultimate prize of the war, the plan hastily formulated due to time constraints, led to failure, prolonging the war, and the ultimate prize remained illusive.
The British did not scapegoat the Poles. Montgomery offered awards of bravery to them in fact. Montgomery himself scapegoated Sosabowski, because Sosabowski was critical of him, but he did not scapegoat the Polish contribution as a whole; in fact he praised it. I am a big Montgomery fan, and will defend him to the last for his contributions to overall victory, but even I admit the man had an ego and would not be criticised.
Absolutely. Not a bona fide actual quote from Montgomery putting the blame on the Poles. He did though, in his own memoirs, put the blame on his own mistakes.
The problem is that bloody movie makes people think they know the history of this.
And especially the utterly false tea drinking scene, which even the actual US officer allegedly portrayed by Redford disowned.
you know the brits have failed if the sun is setting upon em
wow so the british blamed their own poor planning and execution of market garden on polish? Montgomery and Browning were massive turd-balls
@Your Average Scotsman But he didn't say Market Garden failed because of Sosabowski. He said it failed because of the Germans, the weather, lack of resources and his own mistakes.
No. Montgomery used ONE Pole, Sosabowski, as a scapegoat. He praised the rest of the Poles, but used Sosabowski, who was very critical of Montgomery, as a scapegoat.
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Hard to read the little text boxes in the vids
It seems like they had gone a bridge too... what’s the word, distant?
Ive seen the movie... and u nailed it
This video is great when you play Company of Heroes: Opposing Front.
ohhh we failed, wait a second we can blame a Poles
@Buła Bułkowski No worries. Browning, and others, disliked Sosabowski personally because he was uncooperative and argumentative. Browning suggested a younger man who was more flexible. He named two other Poles who should take over. Browning said Sosabowski did well in training and organising the brigade but that a younger more able man take over.. Sosabowski earlier rejected Brownings proposal to enlarge the Polish para brigade into a full division (with Sosabowski still in charge) with the addition of British troops. Sosabowski didn't want British troops in his unit. This was uncooperative and not very 'allied'.. Cheers. Peace.
@John Cornell yes my man i didn't know about Browning, give me time for check other infos i am pretty busy right now but How can u explain taking down Sosabowski from command of his selfhand brigade?
@Buła Bułkowski I will pay you £10,000 if you can quote Montgomery blaming the Poles for Market Garden not succeeding. In his own memoirs Montgomery blamed the Germans, the weather, lack of resources and his own mistakes. He NEVER said Sosabowski and the Poles were the reason Market Garden did not succeed. By the way, Browning was got rid of and was out of the paras before Sosabowski was. I bet you didn't know that, did you?
@John Cornell surely if u say so ( btw i recommend u watch a documentary about gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski)
Never happened.
I don't say this that much but for once thanks, America for helping us capture that bridge and helping us to win the 2nd world war. We lost some bloody good lads those 3 days.
yes that is bravery..but now imagine 120 soldiers defending against chinese battalion in the coldest mountains and when they got all their ammunation used..instead of surrendering they did their last bayonet charge. plz make a video about rezang la battle
@vanshaj sharma A lot of those Paras did fight to the last though out of 750 men at Arnhem bridge only 98 were left alive on the fourth day. So the other 652 perished in action.
@Bullet-Tooth Tony The gurkha battalion of the indian army which was praised by the commanders of all over the world in ww2....has a quote which says ' better to die than being a coward' sorry but there is no word like 'surrender' exists in the indian army...you can check on google..and yes surrender is no shame. by the side of attacking force but if youre defending your homeland...then surrendering is not an option. like germans fought till the last man even after the collapse of the reich.
@vanshaj sharma Even the 6th army the most powerful german formation surrendered after a long battle, theres no shame in surrender....sometimes throwing away valuable soldiers for the sake of glory is a waste.
German officer: What did they try to send? German soldier: “God save the King”
1936 aillede and 1300 german solders killed
The artwork on these videos is incredible. Keep up the great content.
3:40 wait... these were static line jumps, meaning the chute opened when leaving the plane or you died.
Another fun fact, the Brit radio guy had a special hollowed out bullet that he was to use to insert the cypher code into the bullet and fire it out of his rifle so that the code could not be captured. He forgot. But the Germans never discovered the cypher code slip.
In A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan, which I read a couple of decades ago, it is mentioned in some great detail how the Germans hit the landing zones with White Phosphorous shells, setting the landing zones on fire. The Germans had some advance knowledge of the landing zones and hence, the Polish Brigade jumped into a burning field. I remember also seeing areal photos of burnt hang glider transports as a result of the white phosphorous fires. This video makes no mention of either the burning field or use of assault gliders.
The glider troops of the 6th airborne also suffered the highest casualty rate of any unit involved in market garden
The irony is that Montgomery was forever being derided for being too cautious a general, but the one time he gambled on a daring plan he failed. There was however a lot of bad luck in this failure, it might have been a success. If it had been a success everyone would be saying what a brilliant general Montgomery was. Those who forever spout off about 'bold action' and 'risk taking' need to remember that the average outcome of taking a big risk is failure. These are the fortunes of war and for the common soldier they often mean death, not a stunted career.
@Your Average Scotsman No worries. If you need more names just ask hehe. I have a fair few sources. Cheers.
@John Cornell Thanks mate. I'll write those down so I won't forget them.
@Your Average Scotsman Brereton, Williams and Hollinghurst are the names of the prominent air commanders who took over the initial idea.
@Your Average Scotsman Yep. Only the idea was his. The detailed planning and decisions therein were made by others. Still, his ground forces moved 100km closer to Germany and the area gained was the springboard for his advance into Germany. That ground had to be taken anyway and may have been tougher to take a month or two later.
Ironically enough, Monty was never involved with the planning of Market Garden. He gave a broad outline of the plan and then gave it to a group of people from the RAF and USAF (I can't remember their names, but I'll try to find them). He didn't plan a single bit of it, yet because he suggested it, he gets the blame.
Heroic means never surrender.......They fought heroically and surrendered??????????........lol,,,,,...?
@Bullet-Tooth Tony Hes clearly trolling.
@Bullet-Tooth Tony you can just find it on youtube mate
@Zarni Tin cant find it send a wikipedia page if there is one that exists on the battle
@Bullet-Tooth Tony kwan loo 40 days
@Zarni Tin Source?
Why are the brits wearing Rhodesian brushstroke
Robert Cain won his VC at at Arnhem, his story is worthy of individual note as an intsance of unparalleled bravery and heroism and well worth looking up for yourself. Jeremy Clarkson did a fantastic Documentary of his story.
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My grandpa told me that his farther who was a Dutch resistance member who always came close to death. He Was a Fireman for Arnhem and was right in the center of it. Here is a little back story. My grandpa’s farther used to live on the coast of the Netherlands. When the Netherlands was invaded. he had to move house’s because when Normandy was about to happen and they (Germans) thought that the Allie’s would land in the Netherlands so they Flattened the house’s along the coast him included. So he moved to Arnhem, when he realised that if you did not work for the Police, fireman, ect (I forgot what he told me) you would go work in Germany in the work force. his father knew that he must join one of those. So he join the fireman, as I told you before. And as you know after a while Arnhem was invaded in operation market garden. And he was in the center, (like I told you before) and oh boy! He had lots of works to do. Allied bombing destroyed his house so he usually sleep in the fire station. Everyday after he got rid of one fire because of Allied bombing the radio would say after he put out one “go to (this street) there is a house of fire there” So that’s it (New story appearing!) my Oma (who is just short for great grandma) she lived through WWII and was 5 when it ended say’s she saw Panzers (Panzer VI’s, Half tracks, she say’s she may of saw a tiger but she can’t remember that one) rolling through her street. She says that she lost lot’s of friends in school from allied bombing or anything else there was one part where her neighbouring village was on fire and she had her best friend in there and as you guess....ded. I’m sorry for making you reading this.
Hey armchair historian, would a video on the Austrian War of succesion be possbile? If so that would be great!
Nicely done and easy to follow narrative!?
Their is a movie about this check it out on Netflix. I think its calles a bridge to far
do a video on times the kmt was good against the Japanese as all I hear is negative information
Things like this happened all the time at the Eastern front
Watch the movie "a bridge too far "show starring Sean Connery.
However, don't watch it if you prefer accurate history.
Griffin, why don't you do a video on the Falklands war from the USA's point of view?
This was an amazing video. And thanks for including the Polish Eagle on the helmets. And what is interesting is that the Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands wanted to award the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade. But the idea was opposed because it would upset relations with the big three.
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Can You Do How Did Croatia Became A Kingdom?
Please make a Indonesian history like a Confrontation Between Indonesia And Malaysia Or Indonesian national revolution.......
For more british disasters, might I suggest the Battles of Doiran during the WWI? Edit: Might be interesting for others to learn why the bulgarian General Vazov was proclaimed by the british as "One of the few foreign officers whose name features in our history"
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The fact that they fought until the end, out of ammunition, failed by their superiors, and surrounded by all sides, and still believed. So much valor in the line “Out of ammunition. God save the queen.” These were true hero’s.
@Your Average Scotsman You should read about Digby Tatham-Warter, the guy disabled an armored car with an umbrella
You're forgetting the best part about that quote. The end of it: "Will continue with bayonet". With fucking bayonet against tanks and rifles.
Can you explain the Dutch-Indonesian war 1945-1949?
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway shows the American advance and attempted relief of Arnhem.
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I think you should cover the war of 1812
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My great grandda was a para during WW2 and he was sent to take Arnhem but never made it and the reason was they over shot it and they were in the country side so they decided to engage the germans if they see them Also he hated the Americans after because the pilot was American and the map they were given was useless as it use the map of the town had no markings on it as well
The war of 73
I live in Arnhem, and big respect for the allies.
a bridge too near.
since you always, only point out the bravery of the Allies, never of the Germans, you actually lying to yourself, kind of large scale , which ultimately disqualifies your contribution!
Another arrogant action by Montgomery, like his four attempts to take Caen. Because of his failures, the Germans still think they are great warriors. Hopefully, Zhukov demonstrated that the murders of civilians are bad soldiers.
@Edwin Hidalgo Zhukovs casualty ratios were abysmal. He suffered terrible loss ratios against the Germans. Montgomery pushed back seven panzer divisions at Caen and with far fewer casualties than Zhukov would have suffered in the same situation. At Cherkassy-Korsun Zhukov had 60,000 Axis troops completely surrounded and cut off, and still most of them got away.
@Edwin Hidalgo taking Caen was not the plan, the plan was to draw the maximum number of German armour onto the British so that the Americans could punch through to the west.
@Edwin Hidalgo Wrong country. Republic of Finland.
@Jussi M. Konttinen Another pet of Trump. That is why today China is greater than Gringoland.
@Edwin Hidalgo I'm a republican. You are a homicidal commie apologist.
There's lots of wrong accounts mentioned. Better check mark
"Take cover! Bring up the PIAT."
Thank you for this video. My Grandfather fought in this battle.
You should do america's worst airborne disaster: battle of the bulge
Germans have had to be low key annoyed that they took so damn long to surrender even with them being surrounded
Chosin Reservoir for a potential episode?
gen Sosabowski as only one shows mistakes of plan before marget garden begins. After british put all blame on his shoulders. gen urquhart as the only one respect gen Sosabowski for all what he did. Sad but true, shows how Polish were treated and sold to stalin after WWII.
Sosabowski liked Market Garden. It was the previous plan, Comet, he had misgivings about. Then again Sosabowski wanted to be dropped on Warsaw. Good luck with that. That would have been 100% losses.
That poor polish commander
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Can we get a video on what happened to italy after WW2