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The biggest airborne battle in World War II-the Battle of Market Garden

1June 6, 944, the allied forces landed in Normandy. On July 25th, the Third Army led by Barton took the lead in rushing out of Normandy and began the German pursuit on the French plain. The allied forces were gradually filled with optimism.

Montgomery and Barton, the two iron fists who attacked, wanted to be the first people to enter Berlin, but the limited supply capacity of the Allies could not guarantee that the two armies would attack at the same time, and the attack could only be carried out in one direction. Finally, Montgomery's plan to March north was accepted by Eisenhower.

Montgomery hoped to end the war before Christmas, in an attempt to bypass the rumored "western barrier" closely guarded by the Germans and launch a new round of offensive in the direction of the Netherlands, code-named "Market-Garden". It is planned to adopt the airborne "leapfrog" tactics, with 35,000 people from the 82nd, 1 0/airborne divisions of the US Army, the British Army1airborne division and the Polish Parachute Brigade parachuting in Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Anan, 63 miles deep, in order to seize the bridge on the Rhine River as a baton.

1944 September 17, 13: 30, the battle began. Allied forces used more than 5,500 transport planes, 2,596 gliders and more than 8,000 fighters and bombers, and at the same time * * * parachuted more than 35,000 people, 568 cannons and 65,438 vehicles in three areas. But the campaign didn't go well. After a brutal battle, 10 1 division and the 82nd division suffered 3542 casualties before joining forces with the ground forces. However, the far-ahead British 1 Airborne Division did not wait for reinforcements. After 37 16 casualties, less than 2000 people broke through successfully and the rest were captured. The Germans only lost 3300 people. This battle was the largest airborne battle in World War II, and the Allies paid heavy casualties, but only "completed 90% of the target" (Montgomery language). After the war, a field commander lamented, "That bridge is too far for us!"

1September, 944 17 Sunday is a good day for flying according to Western European standards. By nine o'clock in the morning, the fog had cleared at airports all over Britain, and the cloud height on the European continent remained above 5,000 feet. Just before dawn, hundreds of British and American fighters and bombers took off and flew to the Strait in formation. At this time, the British Second Army Corps was invading Holland and advancing to the lower reaches of the Rhine. At that time, the air force's ground target was in the north of the 2 nd legion.

This is the beginning of "market action" and the first large-scale daytime air raid by the military since the German army captured Crete more than three years ago. When Montgomery's 2nd Legion took airborne attack as the vanguard, 1, the supply of 2nd and 7th Legion could only be kept to a minimum, and the 2nd British Legion would advance to Suedeze across Albert and Escat Canal and intercept the Germans in the west of Holland. This ground combat part is called "combat garden". Eisenhower wanted to go deep into these low-lying countries and seize the bridgehead on the Rhine River, so as to relieve the pressure on Antwerp. At the same time, he wondered whether it was possible to maintain the momentum of the offensive, cross France and enter the open plains of northern Germany. This test of the German residual resistance may become a decisive battle in Western Europe during the Great War. Montgomery is ready to advance on a very narrow front, which has never been tried by a large army; In fact, he took the whole army along a road through Ein-dhiven, Stoedendrode, wickel, Uden, Guenaff, Nijmegen, Arnhem and Apeldoorn. The task of paratroopers is to occupy the bridges along the road and keep them open.

After the fighters crossed the sea and entered the Netherlands, they all descended to the height of the top of the tree, searched and attacked the anti-aircraft gun positions along the axis of the main road from the British area to the north, crossed the Val River in Naimegan and entered Anheng. Bombers continued to attack German operational airports in Leeuwarden, Steenwijk-Hauekte, Hopsten and Salzbergen, where flames were blazing and craters piled up on the runway.

At 10 a.m., paratroopers and gliders took off from 24 airports in south central England. The transport plane dragged the glider down the runway and rushed into the early morning sky. Only planes climbing and turning are seen in the air. Fighters 1 13 1, transport planes 1545, gliders 478, formed into a fleet, and flew west to the North Sea in two ways. Twenty minutes before these formations, six British and 12 American air navigation groups transported the pilots to the marked landing zone. There were twenty thousand allied paratroopers, sweating like a pig, huddled on canvas chairs. Each one is hung with various suspenders, suspenders and bullets. It's hard to say how many, but everyone's psychological thoughts are fluctuating, confused and heading for Holland. All operations need to airlift 35,000 people to participate in the war, support 25,000 transport planes and glide down 24,000 times.

The air force fleet is divided into two huge echelons: one is in the north, carrying the 82nd British Division and 1 Airborne Division to reach the target area via Sauven Island in the Netherlands, and the other is in the south, which is used by1KLOC-0/Division. Each echelon plane is divided into three roads, and the left and right roads are one and a half miles away from the central road. This is the largest aircraft formation in history, and it carries three airborne divisions to fight at the same time.

The transport planes transferred from the ninth US Army Transport Command and the 38th and 46th Brigade of the Royal Air Force are experienced pilots who landed in Normandy and fought in the south of France. Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division have just returned from training in various training bases in Britain. Soldiers have experience in fighting in Sicily, Italy and Normandy. 10 1 division is also a veteran of Normandy landing, and has been training for this parachute jump since late July. The British 1 Airborne Division has been preparing for nearly nine months since it came back from fighting in Africa, Sicily and Italy. As for the Polish paratroopers brigade 1 as a reserve, it has been prepared in Britain for two years in order to return to the European continent.

The fleet flew over Belgium and the Netherlands without interference from German fighters. The anti-aircraft gun fire is surprisingly small. The southern echelon carrying 10 1 airborne division encountered more anti-aircraft artillery fire, while the northern echelon almost did not. On the way, the US military lost 35 transport planes and 13 gliders. The British fleet did not lose anything on the way.

The original plan was to airdrop three paratroopers in front of the main attack route of the 2 nd British Army Corps to occupy important terrain and bridges. Taylor's 10 1 airborne division landed in Enhefen fifteen miles ahead, Gavin's 82nd airborne division landed in Nijmegen, and R.E. urquhart's 1st airborne division occupied Anheng. Half an hour after the air raid, the 30th Army launched an attack, with the Irish Guards Armored Division as the pioneer, marching along the road in column formation, joining forces with the airborne division in turn, and the paratroopers kept the road open. The army moved forward, crossed the lower reaches of the Rhine at Anheng, established a bridgehead, and prepared to continue to March on Germany.

When this bold plan was conceived, it was the climax of a large-scale continuous pursuit of the Germans, and the defeated Germans were expelled back to their borders. The allied forces in the attacking forces acted quickly and the ground forces were invincible, so the plan of airborne reserve to participate in the war was all invalid. Within six weeks after the establishment of Allied Airborne 1 Legion in Bretton Woods, the staff officers of the Ministry have drawn up 18 different operational plans, and they only need to cancel them one by one because the vanguard troops on the ground keep advancing. The selected targets of air strikes include more than ten places from chartres-Rambouillet in the Netherlands to Mainz and Mannheim in the German territory.

The repeated cancellation of these plans and the lack of long-term planning guidance are the main reasons. These airborne combat plans were conceived by the low-level grass-roots personnel of the high-level command organization. Brayton later pointed out that the operational objectives of airborne troops and the coordination with all ground forces should be decided by Eisenhower and his staff. In fact, Brayton had to coordinate with other military commanders to decide his plan, but all military commanders thought he was competing with them for the transport plane. A senior staff officer told Brayton about the correspondence at that time. He said, "You are flying around there, so be careful not to get into trouble. If we are asked to solve your difficulties, supply you and support you, then we may not be able to complete our task. You can sit in the back and give us some supplements. Why on earth should we help you? Anyway, if the situation is difficult, Ike will give us one or two divisions-maybe one or two of yours. Commanders of various regiments are concerned about how to replenish their scattered troops at present. As for airborne operations, they may take away valuable planes, but of course they are not interested.

On the one hand, the opinion of the ground commander is correct; During the repeated drafting and cancellation of these airborne combat plans, the transport plane transported 600 tons of supplies (mainly fuel) to the frontline troops every day. During the four days from the approval of the "market operation" plan to the actual launching of air strikes, the transportation headquarters of the 9th Army dispatched 190 1 sorties, transporting 5358 tons of materials first and then 189654 tons. These airlift missions took up a lot of coordination and preparation time before D-Day.

Of all the plans, the "market" plan is what everyone, especially the airborne division commander, wants to put into practice. In all the haste and the high self-confidence brought by the success of attacks again and again, the following signs that should be paid more attention to have also been ignored: a very effective and reliable underground work organization in the Netherlands reported that rammstein troops had driven near Nijmegen and Anheng; A few weeks before the attack, the German defense was quite tenacious; The long supply line to the channel port is also extremely busy. The weather in southwest Europe is getting worse every day. Eisenhower asked his subordinates to be bold and imaginative, and the "market war" plan can be said to have both. Several officers were worried about the rumor that the Germans had a considerable number of chariots in Anheng, but the staff officers and commanders didn't care at all.

In the actual assault, paratroopers and gliders proved the confidence of the planners after landing. Both of them have the advantages of only five miles per hour and wind speed during the day, and each unit is densely landed. 10 1 division two battalions parachuted out of the planned area, trying to reach the target smoothly. Attack force met only slight resistance in the air and on the ground at first, and the Germans were deeply surprised. Allied forces can control air superiority, and the assumption of daytime airborne is correct, because daytime airborne also has many advantages, such as easy identification of landing areas, rapid assembly, and good observation of air and artillery support.

Half an hour after the first paratroopers were assembled, the Irish Guards Armored Division began to carry out face-to-face attacks on five battalions of the German Defence Forces, and the initial progress was quite smooth. The 43rd Regiment and 50th Regiment followed the Guard Division and made rapid progress for several miles, which was Montgomery's first promised road to Anheng. This is the "Garden" part of the "Market-Garden War". The 30th Army hopes to reach Enhefen by the end of the first day, D+ 1 to Nijmegen, and D+2 to Anheng.

The 30th Army, Walter, a division that entered the defensive position face to face, entered the army in a hurry and lacked equipment. They chose Valkensward Highway as the boundary line between delegations, which does not belong to any delegation, which shows that they lack experienced leaders. The vanguard of the Irish Guard Armored Division has been attacking from the road, dividing the waltz detachment into two parts. The German defense line, because the two regiments were scattered and unable to communicate with each other, began to collapse and was expelled to the left and right sides of the road. The part that retreated to the west of the road and was isolated used to be the Sixth Parachute Regiment, but it was still under the command of Baron Vondel Hept, whose left arm was injured and bandaged.

The 6th Parachute Regiment was killed or injured while crossing France, so it withdrew from the front line at the end of August and went to McLenburg to recuperate. Hyde sent more soldiers there. Seventy-five percent of the regiment are newly recruited recruits, and 100 of them have never fired a gun. They were immediately transferred to the Netherlands. As the reserve of Stuart 1 Parachute Corps, Stuart also called Heidert to reinforce the Waltz detachment, hoping that the increased troops along the Albert Canal could push back the bridgehead of the British army, or at least prevent its expansion.

Heidt didn't get along with waltz's detachment for long. Three days after his arrival, Heidt met a powerful British chariot force on the road, and overhead, he saw hundreds of transport planes and gliders flying at low altitude, sending the troops to his distant rear. Many of these planes carried the leaders who fought with him and were deeply remembered by him-Qiang Sen, ewell, and other paratroopers of the1KLOC-0/Airborne Division led by Taylor in Normandy.

When Dentelle's plane passed the German front, he and Cassidy stood at the door of the engine room, looking at the first 15-mile-long highway between Bonn and Finland-wickel, which he was in charge of. This section of the road is called "Hell Highway". The land 500 feet under his feet is low-lying and flat, mostly swamps and wetlands. Streams and rivers surround this land, and the topographic point is the bridge on the river barrier. Rows of shrubs and Woods are like barriers in Normandy, shortening the field of vision to only a few hundred yards. When the vehicle left the road, it immediately fell into a quagmire. This terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Taylor's task is to occupy all the bridges on the only road in the area of responsibility intact and cover them for the use of the advancing British Second Corps. In other words, this division will spread out on both sides along this fifteen-mile-long road and extend to the side of the road for a considerable distance, so that the enemy's artillery can't hit the bridge. Even if the troops had to be widely dispersed to various targets, Taylor insisted on intensive landing at first, and only landed in three independent landing areas-Sink's 506 regiment was in the south, McGree's 502 regiment was in the middle, and Qiang Sen's 50/KLOC-0 regiment was in the north. Sink occupied the bridge on the Wilhelmina Canal near Zon, Macquarie occupied the landing area of the glider, and occupied the Domell River Bridge in St. Odanlud and two small bridges on the Wilhelmina Canal near Best. Qiang Sen occupied the bridge on the Willem Canal and the Aa River in Wickell.

Every landing area is easy to find, the area is fairly wide, and it is not far from the road. Taylor jumped at the first light of the green light, and watched the whole division skydive in three airdrop zones. Everyone could see each other. Paratroopers floating above Zangen found eight rammstein cars driving along the road below them. British typhoon fighters entered at low altitude and were repelled by rockets. Paratroopers cheered them in the air. Before Sink's team arrived, the Germans had blown up the bridge in Zangen, but the next day the 506th regiment managed to occupy four intact bridges in En and Fen. Michaelis was in trouble on two bridges near Beit because the defenders tried their best to buy time to blow them up. Qiang Sen occupied several bridges in Wickell, although one of his battalions was about five miles west of the scheduled airdrop zone.

The next day, when the 327th Gliding Infantry Regiment set out, it took 450 gliders, only 428, and two more battalions. Taylor formed a task force under the command of Gerald Higgins, the deputy teacher; The task force, consisting of two battalions, the 327th and the 502nd regiments, has been put into battle with the task of sweeping the west side. Higgins also borrowed a battalion of British chariots and some British artillery units nearby. By the end of D+2, he reported that 300 Germans had been annihilated and that it was very difficult to deal with 1400 prisoners of war. Most of these prisoners belonged to General Walter Pope's 59th Division, and Stuart ordered him to occupy the bridge near Beit.

Only two hours after the air raid was launched, Stuart, commander of the German 1 Parachute Corps, got the allied combat orders from a glider. He immediately took this command to the B Army Command near Anheng to see Commander-in-Chief Mo Deer; Plan the German counterattack: they should hold the bridge in Niemegan, attack the enemy's wings, and prevent airborne troops from joining forces with chariots; At the same time, the 9th and 10 SS chariots attacked and annihilated 1 airborne division Yu Anheng. Among the German generals, Stuart is more familiar with the Netherlands than anyone else, and he also understands the major shortcomings of airborne troops-such as lack of mobility on the ground and lack of heavy weapons. Mo Deer chose Anheng as a training and consolidation area for an SS armored unit, which was planned to be used in the upcoming Ardin offensive. The end of the Battle of Anheng was somewhat helped by luck, but Stuart soon realized that Nijmegen Bridge needed reinforcements, and the excellent defense of the troops he sent there also had an impact.

On the evening of D+2, Taylor's area was attacked by powerful Germans for the first time. General Popa led the 107 chariot brigade to attack Zangen from the east. When Dante led reinforcements to arrive and personally directed the counterattack, Popa's troops and chariots had advanced to the distance where they could shoot directly at the bridge. A German chariot was destroyed by Taylor's only 57 mm anti-aircraft gun, and all of them retreated immediately.

By the end of D+2, 10 1 division was in good condition. After the glider group arrived, Taylor always had a 1 1 battalion to keep the 15-mile-long highway open, while the British armored column was advancing, approaching the 82nd Division in Nijmegen through En and Fen.

In the 82nd Division south of Nijmegen, Gavin's three combat parachutes landed where he wanted for the first time. Gavin's task is to capture the bridge on the Mas River near Ganev and the bridge on the Val River near Nimegan, and capture, organize and defend the highlands near Grosbeck. With Gavin is the commander of the airborne troops, General Browning of Britain.

The terrain around Nijmegen is not the same as the flat open land Taylor met in En and Fen. A low, sandy ridge, only 65,438+050 feet high, runs through Nijmegen, extends about 7 miles south-south, and then turns east into the German forest. This ridge overlooks the surrounding terrain for miles, which is absolutely important for Nijmegen's defense. Two east-west water barriers pass through the lowlands at both ends of Nimei Ridge: Waal River in Nimigan and Mas River at the southern end of the mountain. These two roughly parallel rivers are connected by the Maswar Canal, which flows from north to south along the western lowlands of the mountains. Browning told Gavin that if you want to occupy Nijmegen's 900-foot-wide bridge across the Val River, you must first control the ridge line.

To the east of the ridge is the German forest area, which is a dark and dense forest area and a very dangerous area along the division flank. The Germans may be used as the best assembly area for subsequent counterattacks. All waterways have bridges. Gavin decided to take this ridge first, then capture the bridge across the Maas River in the south, and then the bridge on the Maas River-Val Canal. The Nijmegen Bridge is only for the future.

The parachute drop of the 82nd Airborne Division went well and the assembly was smooth. The delegations reported that all the original targets had been occupied. Ruben Tucker's 504th regiment landed on the west side of the ridge, and occupied the 1800-foot-long highway bridge across the Maas River in Geneve. When the personnel of the 504th Regiment approached the muldoon Bridge, the bridge was bombed by the Germans and occupied the Canal Bridge in Humen at night. Aikman's 505th regiment parachuted and landed near Muk in the south corner of Nijmegen Ridge, and occupied the position in the nearby highlands, blocking the main approach route from the German forest. The 508th regiment of Linkwest landed further north along the east side of the ridge near Wheeler. Ringkvist was ordered to capture Nijmegen Bridge, and he had many other tasks to complete. He sent a battalion across the ridge to occupy Hartert Road in the west, another battalion cut off the road from Naimeiheng to Bi Ke in the west, and the third battalion went to the southern city border of Naimeiheng to prepare for the capture of the bridge there. All these tasks were completed before sunset.

When night fell, Gavin ordered Ringkvist to occupy the bridge. According to Dutch underground workers, only a small group of Germans are guarding the bridge. At this time, Ringkvist has started to search the southern end with a platoon of scouts. Now he is attacking the city with two companies of troops, hoping to take the bridge by surprise. But one company got lost, and the other company arrived two blocks south of the bridge on time, when she heard a group of German trucks arrive at the other side of the bridge-this was the reinforcements that Stuart hastily assembled from Anheng. Ringkvist and his men launched an attack, but they were repelled.

At that time, Dutch underground workers led a group of soldiers and scouts to the postal building in Nijmegen, telling them where the control panel for hiding the explosion line was. Captain ADAMS, the scout leader, occupied the building and destroyed the defense line. The Germans surrounded the building, but Adams held out for three days until the rescue team arrived. On the morning of d+/kloc-0, a company of the 508th regiment tried to occupy the bridge, but it was also stopped by heavy fire. At the same time, Gavin's east wing has also become a threat. Two German battalions in the rear area have emerged from the German forest area and are heading for Grosse Baker. Ringkvist has only one company in this area, but gliding reinforcements are expected to arrive at noon. Ringkvist and ekman each sent a company to the airdrop area. These battle-hardened paratroopers dealt a heavy blow to the Germans, repelled them and wiped out all the enemies in the area. At this time, the first gliders just appeared in the southwest sky. After the glider separated from the tractor over Groesbeck, it spiraled down. There are 450 gliders in this batch, forming a scene of "birds returning to their nests". It is loaded with two battalions of gliding infantry, as well as division artillery and other troops.

With these reinforcements, and in view of the general calm in D+ 1 afternoon, Gavin decided to send Taukker to capture Nijmegen Bridge that night. However, when he reported the plan to General Browning, Browning told him to wait a little, and said that since the threat from the east still existed, it was best to consolidate the existing position of the division first. Browning and Gavin are still very concerned about the unknown Germans in the German forest area, but another incident happened in Nijmegen that day, which made the two generals hard to let go: Dutch underground workers reported to Gavin by commercial telephone: "Anheng's Germans defeated the British. Facts have proved that the news is correct.

The task of the 1 Airborne Division is to occupy the bridge in Anheng and build a bridgehead on the north side of the lower Rhine River, so that ground troops can enter and leave the northern plain of Germany from there. 1 the airborne division longed for world war I for a long time ... when the allied forces swept through France, the division was told to carry out those plans that were abandoned halfway. All troops have been prompted to board the plane. At the last minute, the mission was cancelled. This situation has been * * * four times. Mainly for this reason, the teacher Major General Okuka agreed to the plan to use his troops without hesitation, although some things were not as good as his original intention.

Oguka is tall, but gentle; He is famous for his practical knowledge of infantry fighting and his ability to keep calm under fire, so although he is not a paratrooper and has limited knowledge of paratroopers' tactics and tactics, he was transferred to be a teacher. Because paratroopers are engaged in the same combat as infantry after airborne, Oguka lacks experience in the airborne stage, but it is not a big disadvantage. Compared with the brigade commander of his paratroopers brigade, Oguka's style is slower and more thoughtful. In addition, he knew that he was an amateur paratrooper and felt a little inferior. However, apart from the small problem that he is a novice, he can see the serious problems contained in the attack plan. The commander of the army, Bai Lanning, is also a friend of Xiao Guka. When he saw Montgomery's attack idea, he said in a prophetic tone, "I'm afraid we have crossed an extra bridge." Although Xiao Guka is a little anxious because he is excluded from many plans, and he is also eager for his division to fight, he is still a little worried.

Of course, first of all, there is no time to prepare. When he informed the street of this action plan, it was only six days before the D-Day-time was not short for the ground attack, but it was very hasty to plan a coordinated airlift of a division and its support.

The second is the problem in the area near the target. According to the repeated reports of pilots who bombed inland targets through Anheng, the anti-aircraft gun firepower around the city is increasing day by day, so the Royal Air Force General Staff firmly opposes that if the transport plane must pass through Anheng, the loss will be great. Because of this objection and the lack of a good surrender area near the bridge, Oguka chose the western part of Bi Ke in Hurst as the landing and assembly area, which is about 7 miles away from his main goal-a 1900-foot-long highway bridge at the southern end of the city. In order to ensure the smooth operation and complete assembly of all troops, he is willing to accept that the surrender area is chosen at a considerable distance on both sides of the target, and it takes a lot of time and energy to walk from the airdrop area to the target. This choice also involves another sacrifice, because the plane allocation is not enough, and the air transport will last for three days, during which the airdrop area must be firmly held. As a garrison in the airdrop area, it is too far away to expect to undertake other tasks. Two brigades parachuted on D-Day, one stayed in the landing area, and only one brigade attacked the target alone.

Airborne can be said to be very ideal, with few casualties and little resistance. The two battalions immediately attacked Qiaoling, north of Anheng, but both battalions were on the way to the target, and were blocked by the troops of Sineitai's 9SS and 10SS armored divisions. Under the command of Frost, the 3rd Paratrooper Battalion dived south into the area between the river and the enemy, and continued to advance towards the bridge. Frost tried to win the railway bridge with the third company first, but the bridge was blown up while the third company was still on the road. In the case that the second and third companies were suppressed, the frost continued to attack with the first company and reached the foundation of the North Bridge. He built fortifications here. Later, part of the Second Company, part of the Division Search Battalion, several personnel from the Third Battalion and the Third Company, and 25 engineers came back. His total strength is about 350 men, but he has no heavy weapons to resist the attack of German infantry supported by chariots and self-propelled artillery. After dark, Frost tried several times to seize the southern end of the bridge and connect the defenses at both ends of the bridge, but his weak troops were repelled every time.

By dawn on D+ 1 day, the situation of the British army was already very bad. Frost was trapped in the bridge, and all the landing areas were under great pressure. The special pottery division came from the north, and the armored division advanced from the east. The second airlift was delayed because of the bad weather over Britain and didn't arrive until around 2 pm. These include the 4 th Parachute Brigade, the rest of the Gliding Brigade and some units directly under the division. At this time, the Germans knew the route of the transport plane, so they were prepared. Along the way, the anti-aircraft gun fire was fierce, and half of the airdrop area was occupied by German infantry.

Paratroopers and gliding infantry gathered on the ground under heavy German artillery fire, and the soldiers drove the enemy out of the airdrop zone. So a paratrooper battalion and a glider battalion attacked the bridge. As for the rest of the Fourth Paratrooper Brigade, they attacked the highlands in the north of the city like the Raspberry battalion the day before. They were scared, too. By nightfall on 19, Oguka withdrew his paratroopers again, forming a narrow peripheral defense between the airdrop area and the target area, and violently attacking from all directions.

Communication failure is the most serious problem, and it is impossible to talk between troops; No one can get in touch with fighter planes and transport planes, and the contact with the allies and Britain is also broken. The battle was carried out in the radio static state, and even the battalions directly under the division lost contact. The attack could not be unified, the fighter plane had no air support, and the plane carrying the materials was dropped as instructed a few days ago-making 80% of the materials fall into the hands of the Germans. Xiao Guka was temporarily cut off because he was too far ahead. It was 24 hours before he found out that his troops were fighting to the death, while Frost was fighting alone at Anhengqiao.

Of the three main bridges, only the Enfen Bridge was successful until the evening of 19. In terms of Nijmegen and Anheng, the dispute over the bridge continues. The weather along the coast has gone bad. On D+2, Gavin predicted that the 325th gliding infantry regiment would not be able to fly into the airdrop fortress, and it turned out that he was right. Brayton didn't want to use the northern route that day, because he judged that the swimming anti-aircraft guns that the Germans could assemble would definitely wait for his plane to enter along that route, so he suggested using the safer route in the south. He is more experienced in this route, but the weather on the southern line has turned bad and the plane can't get through. God seems to be joking. It's sunny on the Northern Line, but it's too late to change the plan.

Gavin tried to attack Nijmegen Bridge again. He used a paratrooper from the 505th regiment and a chariot battalion lent to him by the Irish Guard Division. The attack was much stronger than the day before, but it was repelled by the guards on the bridge.

In the next two days, En and Fen and An Heng fought fiercely on the road. Under repeated attacks and counterattacks, the initial air and ground offensive momentum of the allies has failed. After five days of hard fighting, all three airborne division commanders found the situation grim. General B.O. Arlook's 30th Army made extremely slow progress because of the limitation of maneuvering space, strong German defense and lack of support and cooperation in close air. Oguka was rushed to Bi Ke Village, Hurst, on the west side of Anheng, and fought with Heydorp Ferry. Gavin failed to capture the Nijmegen Bridge. Taylor's troops were scattered 15 miles on the road from En and Fen to Geneve, watching the Germans advance on them from both sides of the road.

The main threat to Taylor's 10 1 airborne division seems to be getting bigger and bigger near Wickell, where Qiang Sen tightly controls the 50 1 regiment, waiting for the development of the situation. Qiang Sen's battalion commander was trapped near the highway, and they were very impatient. They want to attack the enemy's army, and the enemy is obviously preparing to attack on their side.

Lieutenant Colonel Ensign Harry Kim Nader is now the commander of the 1st Battalion of 50 1 Regiment. For two days, he has been asking Qiang Sen to let him move to the west side of the road, and the attack was just out of range.