Operation Market-Garden 1944 (3) by Ken Ford & Graham Turner

Author:Ken Ford & Graham Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472820143
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

Crowds of excited Dutch civilians greeted the Guards Armoured Division in every town it reached, often slowing down the advance to a crawl. (IWM, BU00932)

THE THIRD DAY, 19 SEPTEMBER

By 0615hrs, the bridge at Son was completed and the Guards Armoured Division resumed the advance, this time with the Grenadier Guards in the lead. The battalion was ordered to reach Nijmegen that night. On this, the third day of the operation, the large divisional echelon and associated Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) supply column belonging to the Guards Armoured Division also began their move north. The long column amounted to over 800 vehicles. Also on the move were anti-aircraft guns, bridging equipment and various engineering formations. Each of these units had been programmed to move along ‘Club’ Route to a specific timetable during the planning stages. At this point in the battle, this long column was vulnerable, for the enemy was still active along both flanks of the highway. Two squadrons of armoured cars from 2 HCR advanced with the transport to protect the long train of soft-skin vehicles. It stretched from the start line near Joe’s Bridge to Eindhoven. It was not the only column, for as soon as the last of this orderly line of traffic had passed over the Netherlands–Belgium border, the next column – containing 43rd (Wessex) Division and an assortment of other units, including the ground-based component of the airborne divisions – was being assembled ready to go.

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