Operation Market Garden
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Oct 12, 2026
Jason McLeodGUEST
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Jason McLeodGUEST
some poor soldier is gonna be dropped at Operation Market Garden and die when he hits the ground.
Brendan WallHOST
They should've done a cutaway there-
NathanHOST
[laughs]
Mark PainterHOST
Those two armored divisions Eisenhower ordered deployed into the Ardennes from either German flank helped keep the German breakthrough from getting any wider and but the Americans needed to get some reinforcements in front of the German advance.
Mark PainterHOST
The only reserves Eisenhower had left were America's two airborne divisions, the 82nd and the 101st, which were resting and refitting following Operation Market Garden.
Mark PainterHOST
The two divisions were sent to important road junctions in the Ardennes that would be critical to the German advance.
Mark PainterHOST
The 101st was sent to the Belgian town of Bastogne.
John HagedornHOST
He purchased the film rights to Edelman and Walton's book in October of 1965.
John HagedornHOST
He had already bought the rights to the book The Remagen Bridge, which, as all of you experienced listeners know, tells the story of Operation Market Garden.
John HagedornHOST
Wolper said he was attracted to the material because he didn't want to be typed as a serious documentary filmmaker.
John HagedornHOST
He was quoted as saying, It's based on truth, but it's a movie movie, a fun and games type thing, he said, and that's what leads me to believe that some of the real story got lost in the making.
Tail DraggerHOST
And the C-47 crews kept going back for more.
Tail DraggerHOST
Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the airborne assault into Holland.
Tail DraggerHOST
Then the Berlin Airlift, 1948 and 1949, when C-47s and their larger C-54 cousins kept a city of two million people alive while the Soviets blockaded every road and rail line.
Tail DraggerHOST
For nearly a year, the only thing standing between West Berlin and capitulation was the sound of Pratt & Whitney engines on final approach into Tempelhof Airport every 45 seconds around the clock.
Michael WyersHOST
I am your host, Michael Wyers.
Michael WyersHOST
This is part four of our series on Operation Market Garden.
Michael WyersHOST
In part one, we followed the planning, the Allied breakout from Normandy, the supply crisis, the arguments between Eisenhower and Montgomery, and the three airborne plans that came out of them.
Michael WyersHOST
In part two, we turn to Garden, the ground half of the operation, and to Lieutenant General Horrocks' 30 Corps, tasked with driving up a single road from Joe's Bridge to Arnhem.
1 HR 30 MINS LATER
Michael WyersHOST
Fitch moves off before dawn, and at the bridge, Frost waits for a brigade that is not coming.
Michael WyersHOST
while the reconnaissance battalion that crossed his bridge at 1800 hours is somewhere to the south, and it has to come back.
Michael WyersHOST
The main sources for this episode are Steven Zaloga's Operation Market Garden, 1944, The American Airborne Missions, together with Ken Ford's two volumes covering the British Airborne Forces and the advance of XXX Corps.
Michael WyersHOST
The episode also draws extensively on William Buckingham's Arnhem, the complete story of Operation Market Garden, Robert Kershaw's It Never Snows in September and A Street in Arnhem, and John McManus's September Hope, the American side of a bridge too far.
William GoldmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We...
William GoldmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If anybody was heroic in the sense of a, a plan going the way it was supposed to, uh, it was our part of the, o- o- of Market Garden, but it was a disaster.
William GoldmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the disaster of it, and the fact that Mr. Levine wanted to do a depressing story, and was...
William GoldmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we must never forget this.
Jon BurlingameGUEST
They were friendly.
Jon BurlingameGUEST
They knew each other for many years, as many people in the British industry did.
Jon BurlingameGUEST
Attenborough called Addison and I don't know whether Attenborough knew that Addison had actually been a part of Operation Market Garden or not.
Jon BurlingameGUEST
Uh, but it is true that Addison was a tank commander in World War II.
Sophia DuBoisHOST
Oh my gosh.
Jim Lacy BakerAUDIENCE
It just seems weird to buy used medals like that, like, uh, the oak leaf, the three oak leafs for the landings at Normandy and two other land- uh, Market Garden and Operation Varsity.
Jim Lacy BakerAUDIENCE
Is it okay to get medals that were owned by somebody else, or is that gonna ...
Jim Lacy BakerAUDIENCE
It just seems weird.
BenHOST
But the company returning to England is not the same company that left it.
BenHOST
men have been killed wounded or evacuated and those losses have created gaps that now have to be filled new soldiers have arrived from replacement depots and training units and they are joining a company whose reputation has already been forged in combat at the same time the wider war appears to be moving rapidly paris has been liberated german forces have been pushed eastwards and there is growing optimism among the allies that germany may be close to collapse That optimism will soon produce one of the boldest operations of the war, Operation Market Garden.
BenHOST
So Easy Company finds itself in a strange position.
BenHOST
They are veterans now, but they're also rebuilding.
BenHOST
The amount they've done in such a short amount of time massively would have elevated them to what these men were doing.
BenHOST
But it does open an interesting discussion.
BenHOST
Was acceptance and belonging in Easy Company earned through combat? As we see later in the series, when men like David Webster miss out on Bastogne, and despite having jumped into Normandy and been involved in Market Garden, he's ostracised having missed out on the dark days, and it takes a long time for him to be re-accepted into Easy Company.
ChrisHOST
Yeah, and I think, oh, the dogs, the dogs.
Steve MitchellHOST
Levine presents, and clearly, you know, Richard Attenborough was the general, uh, in charge of the day-to-day battles.
Steve MitchellHOST
But Levine, i- in a parallel universe sort of way, is a bit more like Montgomery, who drew up the plans for Market Garden and who really set the, the wheels and the treads, uh, if you will, in motion.
Steve MitchellHOST
Um, this is a movie that was made the old-fashioned way by an old-fashioned producer with not so much an old-fashioned director, but, uh, we'll talk about Attenborough, uh, quite a bit during the course of this commentary, obviously.
Steve MitchellHOST
Um, this was a big deal for somebody like Attenborough, and one of the things that's...
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Steven J. RubinHOST
The Germans have been trapped in the Falaise Pocket.
Steven J. RubinHOST
A lot of their forces, as we sa- as we saw earlier, have retreated into Holland to, to kind of refit and replenish, and then the Americans and British and Canadians had to make a decision.
Steven J. RubinHOST
Are they gonna follow Patton's track? Are they gonna try to cross the Rhine, uh, th- sweeping across France, or are they gonna allow Mon- Montgomery to do this Operation Martin Gar- Market Garden to take the bridges and go into the Ruhr area of industrial Germany? And, uh, as, uh, as I mentioned earlier in titles, uh, Eisenhower decided to go with Montgomery, and by doing so, I think he prolonged the war by three or four months.
Steve MitchellHOST
Well, and the whole idea was to get across the, the Rhine and end the war as quickly as possible.
NateHOST
Mm-hmm.
JoeHOST
But Market Garden is larger for pure numbers of dudes chucked out of planes, by about 10,000.
JoeHOST
I would, you know, wager that people like to remember the D-Day one because it was successful, [laughs] which Market Garden was not.
JoeHOST
We'll eventually talk about that in the series as well.
NateHOST
The airborne insertion part of Market Garden went great, quite frankly.
JoeHOST
That's fair, yes.
JoeHOST
But the operation itself-
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