Operation Market Garden Anniversary

Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2015, 16:21 PMThe Big Red 1

not to mention one of the new maps in CoH2 is called Arnhem...a Market Garden location

Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2015, 22:29 PMRogers

One of the largest allied fuck ups of the entire war. Complete shit show.

Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2015, 23:17 PMvan Voort

Fun Fact:

It was originally known as Operation Market Fucker because Montgomery had Tourette's, fortunately an alert Canadian staffer at SHAEF realised this was unacceptable.

Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2015, 23:21 PMvan Voort

Largest as in most troops involved?

Hardly, even in the Allies Singapore and the Philippines would be comparable.

That's without even mentioning the East Front and any of the dumb stuff Stalin did


Largest as in biggest mistake?

Even more competition for that title...

Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2015, 23:26 PMVuther

Voort, does the word fact mean something different in Morocco?

Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2015, 23:26 PMVuther

Well, they said one of the largest, not that it was the undisputed king of *adjective*.

Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2015, 23:36 PMvan Voort

No, but apparently "Fun" does wherever you are...


I can't be the only person who can no longer take the word "Garden" seriously in any COH2 related context




"One of the largest allied fuck ups of the entire war"

I'm not even sure it would make into the Top 10:


Largest Allied Fuck Up has to be comparable to France 1940 or Stalin 1941

Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2015, 01:32 AMThatRabidPotato

The last German victory, the last Allied defeat.

A Bridge Too Far has got to be the best book Cornelius Ryan wrote, and that's saying something next to The Longest Day and The Last Battle.

Lots of great quotes in there too: "Out of ammunition, God Save The King".

Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2015, 21:47 PMRMMLz

If you haven't seen it, now is a good time.

Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2015, 09:03 AMGermanBuckeye

A really good movie! That bridge still exists in Arnhem, it is now called the john-frost bridge.

Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2015, 09:03 AMGermanBuckeye

A really good movie! That bridge still exists in Arnhem, it is now called the john-frost bridge.

Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2015, 21:51 PMThatRabidPotato

Are you sure about that? I seem to recall it was dynamited either immediately after Frost surrendered or after Oosterbeek was evacuated.

Perhaps they named the new replacement bridge in honor of him?