Comments by "Barrie Rodliffe" (@barrierodliffe4155) on "Operation Market Garden | What went wrong?" video.

  1. Even though Montgomery was left out of the planning Market Garden nearly succeeded, the failure was that the US 82nd and 101st failed to take their bridges, also the airdrop at Arnhem was poorly planned by Brereton, too far from the bridge and over too many days. XXX Corps advanced on schedule and even made up the time lost at Son en Breugel to arrive at Nijmegan on time only to have to take the town and bridge both of which had been reinforced by the Germans, they could have easily been taken when the 101st arrived, only about 17 troops were defending the bridge and not many the town, Germany had time to bring in hundreds. XXX Corps took both but it delayed them and cost the troops at Arnhem who held out much longer than expected.
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  2. Market Gardne wasn't Montgomery's plan, he was excluded from the planning and his misgivings were ignored. Eisenhower insisted it go ahead.
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  3.  @lllordllloyd  Funny how the US failed to take Gherbourg, Brest and any other port in France, Montgomery did take Antwerp intact ahead of schedule, the Scheldt estuary was never going to be easy, hard to attack, easy to defend, it was taken and Antwerp in use by November 1944 Market Garden which was not Mongomery's plan did take a chunk of land.
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  4.  @richardmeo2503  Not Montgomery, he was left out of the planning.
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  5. Funy how Montgomery didn't fail in Sicily, he gave Patton th eeasy road and took on the best of the Germans and most of their armour much like Normandy, Patton shouted a lot there too and it was Patton who was removed from command. As for Market Garden Patton had his slow advance of 50 miles over 3 months, he didn't need to be ordered to stop. At the time of Faiaise Montgomery was taking on much more and Patton stoppped, I understood Bradley ordered him to stop there because Patton if he had kept going would have ground to a halt anyway as he so often did.
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  6.  @richardmeo2503  Montgomery wasn't in charge of Market Garden. Try to get it right.
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  7.  @donise8406  He did have a cunning plan as he had for Sicily and Normandy, both very successful, it was rejected by Eisenhower who insisted that Market Garden go ahead without Montgomery.
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  8.  @richardmeo2503  Surely Failaise was a US operation. Was Montgomery supposed to always rescue the US from their own failures?
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  9. Yet XXX Corps didn't fail, in spite of problems they reached Nijmegan on schedule, that was the big failure, Gavin should have taken the lightly defended town and bridge but he went off disobeying orders and akkowed the Germans to bring in reinforcements.
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  10. Yet XXX Corps did move and they were on schedule even with the delay at Son en Breugel, the failure was by Gavin not taking the almost undefended bridge or the town at Nijmegan, both were reinforced and had to be taken by XXX Corps
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  11.  @richardmeo2503  Very sad that you don't know that USA gave nothing, sold. also Patton had the use of US transport companies and three British transport companies when he failed at Lorraine. If Eisenhower gave in to Montgomery why wasn't Montgomery in charge of Market Garden, Eisenhower insisted it go ahead and ignored Montgomery's reservations, At the Battle of the Bulge Bradley failed, two US armies had to be put under Montgomery's command because the uS headquarters had been abandoned and plans showing the US positions were left on the walls. What the German officers really said was "we wondered if Patton was on our side."
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  12.  @phillipnagle9651  Besides the fact that the Scheldt Estuary was well defended, the failure at Falaise was not down to Montgomery, Patton reckoned he could close the gap, Bradley doubted it and ordered him to stop, meanwhile the British were taking on the best of the German forces and almost all of the German armour, Montgomery had taken forces due to take Caen and sent them to help the US at Carentin. Market Garden wasn't Montgomery's plan, he was left out of it by Eisenhower. In the Bulge Montgomery had to take charge of two US armies and restore order, they along with the British did a fine job. Caen was more important for the Germans who kept sending more troops and tanks, in act a higher concentration of German tanks than Kursk. When it came to Europe Montgomery's performance went from good to outstanding.
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  13. Montgomery didn't plan Market Garden, he was very good at making plans and changing them during an attack.
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  14.  @bigwoody4704  Montgomery's plan that was dropped was not Market Garden.
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