ArnhemStory of the military plan for control of the lower Rhine in Sept., 1944, using an airdrop of British and American divisions. |
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PROPOSED DIVISIONAL LAYOUTDZS LZS AND BOMB LINES | 8 |
ROUTE FLIGHT DIAGRAM | 26 |
DISPOSITIONS AT 1800 HRS 17 SEPTEMBER 1944 | 44 |
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11th Battalion 1st Airborne Division 1st Parachute Brigade 2nd Army 3rd Battalion 4th Parachute Brigade airborne forces aircraft airfield Airlanding Brigade anti-tank gun armoured-car Arnhem arrival attack battle Bittrich bombs Border Regiment Bridge bridgehead British Browning casualties cellar Cleminson comd commander crossing defence Divisional HQ dressing station dropping zone Dutch ferry fighting fire flak force Frost gammon bombs Gerald Lathbury German glider pilots going Gough Graham Roberts ground Guards Armoured Division gunners Hackett Hartenstein Heelsum Heveadorp Hicks Horrocks infantry jeep knew KOSB landing zone Lathbury Loder-Symonds Lonsdale Mackenzie main road Major Monty mortar moved Neder Rhine Nijmegen officers Oosterbeek operation parachutists party Payton-Reid perimeter Poles positions RASC Recce Renkum river Roberts second lift self-propelled guns slit trenches snipers soldiers Sosabowski South Staffords tanks told town troops Warrack Wilson Wolfhezen wounded XXX Corps yards