Posted on 08/15/2009 10:25:16 AM PDT by Baladas
Edited on 08/15/2009 10:29:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
You are getting your bridges confused. Losses at Remagen were actually fairly light. (And, as an interesting bit of trivia, the Germans never rebuilt the Remagen bridge after it fell in the river shortly after it was captured).
Market Garden was actually much earlier - while it WAS a bit too ambitious (and cost the British a full division unnecessarily lost), on the list of fiascoes, it doesn’t come near Hurtgen or even Patton’s attacks on the fixed fortifications at Metz and Nancy.
Oops, you’re right. The bridge too far was at Arnhem, of course.
My thought was that just like Monty and the British planners, Dr. Newsom went a bit too far.
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