Operation Market-Garden 1944 (1): The American Airborne Missions

by Steven J. Zaloga and Steve Noon

Book Overview

In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features that otherwise might delay the advance of British tanks towards the bridge. The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions succeeded in their tasks of capturing the vital bridges at Eindhoven at Nijmegen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782008160
• ISBN13: 9781782008163
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.6"