Steel Wall at Arnhem - The Destruction of 4 Parachute Brigade 19 September 1944 Truesdale DavidPaperback / softback
Steel Wall at Arnhem - The Destruction of 4 Parachute Brigade 19 September 1944 Truesdale DavidPaperback / softback The deployment of the British 1st Airborne Division somewhere in Europe prior to…
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Steel Wall at Arnhem - The Destruction of 4 Parachute Brigade 19 September 1944 Truesdale DavidPaperback / softback
The deployment of the British 1st Airborne Division somewhere in Europe prior to the end of the war was indeed a case of 'coins burning holes in the pockets of SHAEF'. On Monday 18 September 1944, the aircraft and gliders carrying the men and equipment of 4 Parachute Brigade took off from airfields in the south of England. The Allied High Command was anxious to commit to battle a division that, while it contained some elite units, was not fully trained, had carried out only one divisional exercise and contained several officers who were either unfit or unsuitable for airborne command.
Within 24 hours, the Brigade would cease to exist, having achieved nothing more than the deaths of good men for no good reason. For the first time from its creation in North Africa, the brigade was going into battle as a unified formation, albeit not fully trained and far from experienced. Despite the fine