Thanks Cam, this was a great topic mate. I was not aware that the charecter portrayed on the film A Bridge Too Far, was an amalgam of officers. In 2003, I was able to walk the ground in Arnhem. One of my souvenirs of this visit was the book, It Never Snows in September by Robert J Kershaw. The title may be of interest to your audience.
Thanks James, indeed, a ripper subject. Neil managed to bust many myths around DTW, who as I'm informed never hyphenated his name, although many sources do. I've seen Kershaw's book but haven't read it.....lucky you getting to Arnhem. I'm also researching the handful of Australians who were serving with 1st Airborne at Arnhem.
I stood in the potato field where the gliders ‘landed’ or crashed as the case was. It was a quirk of bad timing that as the UK Airborne Division was dropping, there was a German promotion cadre course deployed between the LZ and the Objective. This was unanticipated and they were very effective in disrupting the routes of the advance and imposing uncertainty on the notion that opposition would be negligible.
Thanks Cam, this was a great topic mate. I was not aware that the charecter portrayed on the film A Bridge Too Far, was an amalgam of officers. In 2003, I was able to walk the ground in Arnhem. One of my souvenirs of this visit was the book, It Never Snows in September by Robert J Kershaw. The title may be of interest to your audience.
Thanks James, indeed, a ripper subject. Neil managed to bust many myths around DTW, who as I'm informed never hyphenated his name, although many sources do. I've seen Kershaw's book but haven't read it.....lucky you getting to Arnhem. I'm also researching the handful of Australians who were serving with 1st Airborne at Arnhem.
I stood in the potato field where the gliders ‘landed’ or crashed as the case was. It was a quirk of bad timing that as the UK Airborne Division was dropping, there was a German promotion cadre course deployed between the LZ and the Objective. This was unanticipated and they were very effective in disrupting the routes of the advance and imposing uncertainty on the notion that opposition would be negligible.