Oosterbeek

Yep.

Which is about eight-odd miles away at Oosterbeek, which is a beautiful suburb.

You know-

Mm-hmm

Yep

... unless you have a larger formation.

And like I've always said, which direction are they gonna go? Are they gonna go rescue Frost, or are they gonna go to Oosterbeek? And are tanks themselves gonna be able to do that? I mean, you need an actual bona fide force.

So that, that, you really don't get that fair view of, of, uh, when, when Julian Cook-

The battalion moves off at 1510 hours.

It goes south from the brigade rendezvous to Hielsem, then turns east along the Koninginner Lahn, through the Dorwerthsche Bosch, toward Heverdorp and Oosterbeek.

Major Digby Tattam Water's Company A leads, with Lieutenant Andrew McDermott's three platoon at its head.

Frost has chosen Company A as his spearhead.

It can carry eight jeeps or the equivalent and it offers another approach to the bridges from the south.

The action does let Tatum Water hear his bugle system work under fire.

Beyond Hevedorp, the road becomes the Oosterbeekweg, then, in Oosterbeek itself, the Benedendorpsweg.

The battalion reaches Oosterbeek before 1800 hours.

[laughs]

And it is p- important to note that this meeting took place at Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek in the Netherlands, and, uh-

Mm-hmm.

That means East Beak

And just like our earlier explorations on the history of lobbying, this is named after...

A hotel that was a small family-run hotel back in the 50s in Oosterbeek, Netherlands.

Ah, yes,

the Netherlands, home of The Hague.

We fly with the tugs and gliders across the North Sea.

We land with the pathfinders, the air landing battalions, and the 1st Parachute Brigade on the landing and drop zones west of Arnhem, and we watch the Germans react from a training battalion in the woods at Wolfheze to the field marshal who looks up from his lunch in Oosterbeek.

It is the, the night of September 16th, 1944.

Operation Market Garden begins.

Most of them are inexperienced.

Their officers and non-commissioned officers are battle-hardened.

The battalion is billeted near Oosterbeek, some five kilometers east of Wolfheze.

On the morning of September 17th, the Allied bombing begins.