Comments by "" (@lyndoncmp5751) on "The BAD BOY of Operation Market Garden | General 'Boy' Browning" video.

Browning didn't have a lot to do with the planning and decisions in Market Garden. Other commanders above and below him (Brereton, Williams, Hollinghurst, Gavin, Taylor and Urquhart) made nearly all the main decisions. Browning was really in no mans land and is largely irrelevant.
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@ghostinthemachine8243 Well too many cooks and all that. His corps headquarters were not chosen for Market Garden. Brownings headquarters corps was chosen instead. Ridgeway was there during the Ardennes though. Browning being there was more or less a waste of time. He neither made the top decisions nor the lower decisions. I dont really see why he was even there. He really didn't do much and the two months later he was out of the paras and shunted off out to Burma as an administrator for Mountbatten.
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The idea was sound and well liked. The actual planning of it, by the air commanders, was flawed.
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Browning didn't have a lot to do with it. Other generals above and below him (Brereton, Williams, Hollinghurst, Gavin, Taylor, Urquhart) made nearly all the decisions not Browning.
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Gavin DID order a move on the bridge though. Both pre drop and then again at 6.00 pm on day one.
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@od1452 I know. Just pointing out that Browning never told Gavin to ignore the bridge and that Gavin actually did order an attack on the bridge on the 17th. Regarding the tanks, there was no intelligence report of 1,000 tanks in the Reichswald. Im of the opinion it was later made up to excuse why the bridge wasn't taken. Even if it was true that they really thought there were large numbers of tanks in the Reichswald, when none showed up to threaten them on the 17th and 18th that should have put paid to that idea, right?
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@od1452 By the way, the German forces to the north were not disbelieved. British 1st Airborne had the intel that a grouping of 10,000 troops "may represent a battle scarred panzer division or two reforming". That is why they took 6 and 17 pounder anti tank guns and PIATs along with them. Recon pics only showed a handful of obsolete early war tanks of a training battalion and that unit played no real role Market Garden. The two SS panzer divisions actually had zero tanks between them. The tanks later came in from Germany in the days that followed. German army units. Kompanie Mielke, Schwere Panzer Kompanie Hummel, Sturmgeschutz Brigade 280 and Panzer Brigade 107. None of these units were even in the Netherlands when the paras dropped. They arrived on the 18th and 19th.
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