Who Dares Wins. God bless him.

I don’t know the context of this attack but it seems very poorly planned.Why a1300 hours start and not a night attack at which the British excelled. No reconnaissance, lack of wireless comms, must mean that no artillery support could be called up once the attack was in trouble. If the carriers were stuck in the boggy ground, this must also have so Lowed the infantry advance, leaving the Guards vulnerable to a resolute German counterattack.Great video, so many questions I would love to ask the divisional or brigade commanders.

I cant find no info on any of this on google other than this video... looking for battle of Vrij suggests "Operation Veritable" but there is not info on Vrij on its wikipedia page.

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The ultimate F around Find out moment.

The Royal Navy used to have a good name. Are they trying to tarnish their reputation, or is it already too late?

Somolia pirates should get education to differentiate Warship and cargo for personal safety.

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Great vid mate

Such a dangerous way to migrate to Europe

================= Monty knew his trade, =================================== and could see at a glance what was required - which to some people was unforgivable, since the Americans, positioned in a defender's paradise, were caught with their pants down. /

You might do a story about the USS Biscayne. A true fighting ship

Aitch. not Haitch. there is no such word. This is a language. Not a best guess at shit.

The 17lbr gun was the one western gun the german armour actually feared. They pulled their tanks out of the fighting around Oosterbeek at arnhem when they found they faced the 17lbr guns...which saved the 1st Airborne from being overrun.

My people really weren’t playing 😮

One of my uncles was part of the same special forces

So this was a northern protestant Irish unit??

I was in Mosul Iraq at the time this happened. They saved alot of people that day 🇺🇸

Jonny Kim: "I want to believe I would have done the same thing if I were in that position, but you never know until it happens".

The Brits probably sent them ahead as cannon fodder.

I remember reading an account from Richard Winters in Band of Brothers. During their joint operations with the British in Operation Market Garden, he recounts how a British patrol set off to find the enemy. He noted how the Brits at the time tended to walk out into the field in formation, but in full view of the enemy, without moving very tactically until contact was made. He saw a bunch of them cut down by withering MG42 fire because of this. They could have been replacements or just not very well trained. The Irish guards here may have befallen a similar fate.

My dad used to tell me stories about this man when he knew him and it’s crazy to think my dad served with such a hero

“Mistake!,” said the rooster and got down from the duck.

To lose 2 majors in one engagement is insane.

When I got to the part of the description that said there were '180 Spanish marines' onboard I spat out a mouthful of tea and just burst out laughing...well done to the Spanish marines !

They must've never heard any of the stories of what happens when you touch Americas boats.

Pirates: "WHAT THE FUCK ARE CARGO SHIPS DOING WITH THAT MUCH FIREPOWER?!?!"

82ND AIRBORNE This man operated in typical AIRBORNE fasion...hes a stud...and my Hero.

By this point, both sides were reaching the end of their manpower reserves. After Montgomery's fecklessness at Caen in June-August 1944, misallocation of resources to Market Garden that should have been used to clear the shores of the Scheldt Estuary leading to the port of Antwerp, the British Commonwealth leadership had to implement a "casualty conservation" policy. The Germans were resorting to Hitler Youth and Volkssturm soldiers to supplement regular German military forces, but there were still over 300,000 German troops defending the Ruhr. One cannot defend the atrocities of the nazi regime, and most Germans knew the war was lost, but if I were a German soldier defending the Heimat in those months, I would fight to the last, whether it was using a Panzerfaust from a window in Berlin, an MG-42 in the Reichswald, or a Flak battery against Arthur "Bomber" Harris's RAF Bomber Command "area bombing" Berlin, Dresden, Pforzheim, etc.

Surely Gen Thomas was aware of the plan regarding the FOURTH airborne division? No sooner had Urquhart seized both bridges (yes, the railway bridge to the west of the Arnhem road bridge was also a primary objective), they were then to secure Deelen airfield - about 3km north of the bridges. To that end both US Airborne Airfield engineers and the RAF's AFDAC airfield units had dropped with the 1st Airborne in order to prepare for the arrival of 52nd Lowland Inf Div (Air Portable). With the Arnhem area reinforced with this further fresh light infantry division, potential difficulties in holding the area just vanished. Gen Browning refused Gen Hakewill-Smith's offer to hurl 52nd Lowland into the Arnhem cauldron once the bridgehead had failed. Perhaps one of Browning's better decisions.

A BABY bridge? Huh? Surely, a BAILEY bridge?

No no! US 101st Airborne, US 82nd Airborne and British 1st Airborne _ as well as 52nd Lowland Infantry Div (Air-Portable), the SECOND British division from 1st Allied Airborne Army to fight in MARKET GARDEN - were all under command of Browning's 1st Airborne Corps and thereafter Lt. Gen Lewis Brereton USAAF, who commanded 1AAA. Brereton reported directly to Eisenhower at SHAEF - not to Dempsey at 2nd British Army or to Monty at 21st Army Group. The parachute divisions all DROPPED under Brereton's MARKET command; 101st Airborne then came under Horrocks'/Dempsey command the moment their boots touched the ground, 82nd Airborne came under Horrocks as soon as XXX Corps reached the Nijmegen area. Technically speaking Urquhart's Br. 1st Abn Div NEVER came under Horrocks at all although it's clear that Dempsey, in giving Browning a very clear order that the remainder [*] of 52 Lowland Air-Portable Div was NOT to be engaged without Dempsey's express approval, confirmed that he (Dempsey) was taking over. It was this chaotic command structure from bottom to top that allowed Maj-Gen Williams USAAF of IX Transport Command to overrule the senior soldiers' wishes and refuse to conduct the entire operation in two lifts, thus derailing the whole thing - and condemning so many of the ground troops to death. Had Williams been an Army guy - or British - he'd have been told to just get on with things and quit whining. The mess of command in Market-Garden also allowed Brereton and to some extent Ridgway to slither away from blame in the disaster. [*] The Recce Rgt of 52nd Lowland, plus some field artillery and 52nd Div AAA units rushed forwards from the Joe's Bridge start line on 17th Sept, quickly linking with 101st Airborne, coming under Gen Taylor's command and joining in the fight to keep Hell's Highway open. FOUR Airborne Divisions, TWO British and two American, fought in MARKET-GARDEN.

History hasn't been kind to Gen Thomas (often named as 'Ivor' rather than 'Gwilgym'). "I saw him once, looking every inch the thorough-going shit he was reported to be" noted a young 2nd Lt, Sherwood Forest Rangers, in his diary. Thomas - small, pugnacious and profane - was reputed to have little concern with battle casualties in his 43rd Wessex Div. earning him the soubriquet 'Butcher Thomas'. It may be no coincidence that Thomas was invited to that very bad-tempered meeting between Horrocks and Polish para Gen Sosabowski. It sounds like Gen Thomas was there as 'Bad Cop'.

Capt. (Dr) Percy Louis RAMC, 133 Parachute Field Ambulance, MO 1st Airborne Corps Advanced HQ, made several trips into the Arnhem 'cauldron' [*] with the Dorsets, carrying fresh medical supplies and assisting with the cross-river evacuation of seriously wounded airborne troops. He went Missing in Action, 24th September 1944, body never found. Why do I mention this brave doctor/soldier? Because he travelled in Gen Fredk Browning's glider during the Corps lift. Consequently, the Browning haters - British and American - persistently disrespect and besmirch Capt. Louis' memory by claiming he was 'Browning's Doctor'. He was not. [1] yes, the German's called the Arnhem area 'Der Kessel' (the cauldron). This was a term they reserved for battle areas like Stalingrad.

Are they mental defectives?

The pencil like thrust that just kept on giving....

One thing these terrorist fellas fear most is SOP UNITS.

Has anyone interviewed any of the survivors from this group? I want to know what that decision tree looked like. I could see laying down fire to cover a retreat, if the squids saw they were running away they probably would have left them to it. But firing at and then continuing to fire at a no shit naval war ship with assault rifles and an rpg here and there 😮 I need to talk to the guy who decides to keep going in that situation

This video was poignant (yes, as a Yank, I nearly had to open a thesaurus...but I wanted the a word that was worthy). As an American, I dislike how many British reports break out officers from enlisted in casualties....but losing two company commanders and 75% of the platoon leaders wounded shows the bravery of those officers. Great video!

Onore ai soldati tedeschi

Do one for the 1st battalion paratroops at Djebel Alliliga Feb 1943,described as some of the toughest they faced. The Fallschirmjäger they faced called them the red devils ( their nickname to this day).

If you want to know what it was really like read, Brothers in Arms, story of Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry ,

Irish Rangers are a good bunch, semi worked with them in Somalia. Granted it was predominantly their HQ side, in the Embassy Compound. Hats off to you guys. UNISOM DEMINER 😎🇬🇧

It's crazy, that these cities used to be so fought for. Today it's just cows and crackheads. And depressed indian students

Extremely well done. Respectfully, with no stupidly inappropriate music in the background (as is so often the case, unfortunately), and based solidly on the unit log. Absolutely subscribing to this channel.

At what point did the French surrender? Cause they're really good at that

Great video. The Irish Guards jad many actions throughout the Rhineland campaign. Rhineland by Dennis Whittaker has info.

I knew this story and 666 CWCG Headstones tell their sacrifice. We shall always remember

God that was a mighty fuck up

Poor lads