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=Operation Market Garden=

__Overview__
Operation Market Garden was a military mission that was led by Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower. The operation took place in September 1944 during World War Two. The plan was for the Americans to jump out of airplanes and secure the bridges across Holland so the allied army could go in and attack the Germans. If the plan worked it would have ended WWII by Christmas. But the plan failed and after ten days of fighting the troops were evacuated.

__Plan__
In Operation Market Garden there were around 42,000 paratroopers. The plan was for them to land right behind the Siegfried line. The Siegfried Line was a line of forts, bunkers, tunnels, and tanks the Germans had to keep anyone and everyone out of Germany. But the plan was that the paratroopers to drop behind it so they wouldn't have to fight more. The paratroopers would land and block off the bridges so the Germans couldn't have a way out. But there was a lack of aircraft and the plan for all of the paratroopers to land at the sometime didn't work. So the paratroopers dropped down in a two span. 



__Sources__
[|military.discovery.com] [|historylearningsite.co.uk] [|history.army.mil] [|marketgarden.com]