They couldn’t even get planes off the ground because there was zero visibility. And when the weather cleared up, planes still ended up wildly off-course to the point it ended up being a case study of a botched attack.
IIRC Market Garden was more due to the lack of supplies to reinforce paratroopers after they dropped, so they ended up having to retreat instead of pushing forward.
Market Garden was in the Netherlands after Operation Overlord, which was the invasion of occupied France. It was a few months later. If you’re thinking of the Airborne landings in Normandy as part of Overlord, that also had its own fair share if screw ups.
They couldn’t even get planes off the ground because there was zero visibility. And when the weather cleared up, planes still ended up wildly off-course to the point it ended up being a case study of a botched attack.
Yeah Market Garden turned into an absolute shitshow.
IIRC Market Garden was more due to the lack of supplies to reinforce paratroopers after they dropped, so they ended up having to retreat instead of pushing forward.
(D-Day was Operation Overlord)
Right but they happened simultaneously more or less
Market Garden was in the Netherlands after Operation Overlord, which was the invasion of occupied France. It was a few months later. If you’re thinking of the Airborne landings in Normandy as part of Overlord, that also had its own fair share if screw ups.
Tens of thousands of missed aircraft bombs from the looks of it