Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Britain's Worst Airborne Disaster: Battle of Arnhem | Animated History" video.

@FrostySire Brereton and Williams of the USAAF were the planners.
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@jimwalsh8520 Again..... Brereton and Williams of the USAAF were the planners.
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The British 1st Airborne made it to Arnhem bridge, taking the north end of the bridge, denying its use to the Germans. The other two airborne units, both US, failed to seize their assigned bridges immediately. If they had XXX Corps would have been in Arnhem on d-day+1, before any armour came in from Germany. Game set and match. The Germans would not have known what had hit them. The 12 hour delay caused by the 101st not seizing the Zon bridge, meant the Germans for 12 hours had a critical time window to pour in troops and get armour moving towards Arnhem. The 36 hour delay, on top of the 12 hour delay, caused by the 82nd not seizing their bridge at Nijmegen (XXX Corps had to take it for them), meant another longer time window for the Germans to keep up the reinforcing. The 36 hour delay created by the 82nd, meant a bridgehead over the Rhine was precluded, as the two day time window given to the Germans was far too long. The British paras did their part in securing a crossing over its assigned waterway, the Rhine. The two US para units failed in theirs. XXX Corps never put a foot wrong.
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@b4nterontilt And so the campaign in North West Europe is finished. I am glad. It has been a tough business. When I review the campaign as a whole I am amazed at the mistakes we made. The organisation for command was always faulty. The Supreme Commander had no firm ideas as to how to conduct the war and was blown about in the wind all over the place. At that particular business he was quite useless. The Deputy Supreme Commander [Tedder] was completely ineffective; none of the Army Commanders would see him and growled if he appeared on the horizon... and SHAEF were completely out of their depth all the time. And yet we won. The point to understand is that if we had run the show properly the war could have been finished by Xmas, 1944. The blame for this must rest with the Americans. - Field Marshall Montgomery
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@bigwoody4704 Rambo, a quiz. Name the US 82nd general who failed to seize the Nijmegen bridge? 20 points for the correct answer. A bonus question for 10 points. Who seized the bridge for the US 82nd?
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@bigwoody4704 BZZZZZT! Wrong answer Rambo, the name the US 82nd general who failed to seize the Nijmegen bridge, was.. 🍾🎈🎊 General Gavin 🍾🎈🎊 Zero points Rambo. Zero. The units that seized the Nijmegen bridge for the US 82nd, was the... 🍾🎈🎊 Grenadier Guards 🍾🎈🎊 Zero points Rambo. Zero. Better luck next time.
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@bigwoody4704 Rambo a quiz. Name the British general who had to take command of two shambolic US armies in the German Bulge attack? 20 points for the correct answer.
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