FACTS & FIGURES

EVERYTHING ABOUT THE BATTLE

• By order of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery a plan for the Allied advance is adapted to the military situation in the Netherlands in one week’s time. The plan – which was given the code name Operation Market Garden – was divided into two parts.
  • Market: airborne troops were to capture the bridges over the Maas, Waal and Rhine rivers, and other waterways in Brabant and Gelderland.
  • Garden: ground forces were to advance on a narrow front to Arnhem in three days.
• Operation Market Garden was launched in September 1944, and remains the largest ever airborne landing operation.