GRGR(7) Discussion Opener

RICHARD ROMEO RR.TFCNY at mail.fdncenter.org
Fri Dec 13 13:48:00 CST 1996


  14.)  "And she is gone.  Crossed over the English lines at the salient 

     where the great airborne adventure lies bogged down for the 
winter[...]"

     

     What is the adventure referred to here?     

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Must be referring to Operation Market-Garden, late '44, essentially 
Montgomery's idea to use airborne troops, British and American, dropped 
behind German lines in Holland.  Attack bogged down because some SS 
Panzer divisions were on R & R, at sites where landing zones were 
targeted, unbeknownst to Allied intelligence.  Many of the targets were 
the same ones Germany used airborne troops for when they invaded the Low 
Countries in '40.

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Richard Romeo

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