OPERATION MARKET GARDEN:-(PT 2) #1 *of 442) BEST OF 1001 SPIES. LIES & ALIBIS

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Part II The American 82nd and 101st Airborne begin heavy fighting in Holland to secure the bridges spanning the nine waterways which the British 30 Corps, with its tanks and infantry, will need to cross along its 60 mile run from the Belgium border in the south up to Arnhem, near the German border. The British 1st airborne is dropped 8 miles west of its target Arnhem, and finds that it is separated from Arnhem by two Panzer divisions. Only one brigade, Frost's Brigade, reaches Arnhem, and fights desperately to control and then hold the bridge long enough for 30 corps to reach it. Interview segments with Moffit Burris (82nd Airborne) and Brigade Commander Tony Hibbert (British 1st Paratroop Div) provided by Tony Gosling from "A Bridge Not Far" YouTube. An interview with historian Tony Gosling discussing this documentary is included at the end of this story. Includes the story of the spy "King Kong" who sabotaged the mission. Music: Reverie by Ross Bugden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to our new Best of one
0:02.8	one heroes series this is part two of Operation Market Garden
0:08.0	part two is originally titled Operation Market Garden
0:11.9	Spies Lies and Alibis.
0:15.0	Hope you enjoy it.
0:17.0	I finally got sent away, I think, for a remark which turned out to be oddly prophetic
0:22.0	because our general, who was a very dashing figure called boy brining said to Prince Bernard at the Netherlands that the Allied forces were going to advance into Germany over a carpet of airborne troops and I said to our chief
0:36.1	the staff I wonder if they're going to be alive or dead airborne troops this didn't
0:40.3	go well at all so everybody decided decided then that they had enough,
0:43.2	and I got sent away.
0:44.8	I asked if I could stay just as an ordinary officer
0:48.4	in the operation.
0:49.3	They said no.
0:50.9	Everyone said, the British took too much time coming up that highway.
0:56.0	I have felt that had that with George Patton coming up that highway, He'd have made it.
1:04.0	When he said, General Horrocks, I asked Kucah,
1:10.0	Can you let's do the job, can they get the bridge.
1:14.0	Colonel Thompson, let me ask your question, General.
1:17.0	If we take that bridge, what assurance do we have from you
1:21.0	that your tanks will be lined up for Harlem in force.
1:26.0	And Horroon, I can remember their remarks as if they were yesterday,
1:31.0	said my tanks will be lined up at 12 floors, held in Florida, and nothing
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