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quote: Originally posted by Case on 02-17-2001 06:28 PM Yeah, but it was opposed by a German 'parachute' army under General Student. In reality, most of the German 'paratroopers' had never seen a German cargo plane, much less jumped out of one. At the risk of revealing myself as a WW2 nerd, the MG-42 [the big machine gun] in the picture looks like a streamlined, assault varient, as carried by paratroops. mmm, the picture is a link from a site dealing with models. I wonder if that means anything? (I suspect not) |
I hate to say this, Case, but you are a bit off. Market garden was an attempt to force a crossing of the Rhine river and get a foothold in Germany by taking a number of bridges simultaniously by airbourne assault(Market), and a groud drive by British 30 Corp(Garden). Student's 1 Parachute army was not in the target area, instead were two SS Panzer Divions, Hohenstafen, and Frundsburg, as well as a large number of improvised and Ad Hoc formations. British 1st airbourne was to take the bridge on the Rhine, at Arnhem. This failed, as the British could only secure one end of the bridge. The bridge over the Maas at Nijmegan was taken by the US 82 airbourne divsion, and the lower bridges and Eindhoven were to be the target of the US 101 Airbourne. They had mixed results, but that is another story. I'm not sure, but the MG in the picture looks like the MG34, with a bi-ped mounting, not the larger MG42, or the Airbourne MG(who name escapes me right now).
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