 Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007
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| What was the plan after the failure of "Market Garden?" Ed.
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Posted Friday, March 23, 2007
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| Hi Ed - well, the next stage saw the British Army site tight along the Lower Rhine and Maas for the winter, and attack Germany via the Reichswald Forest early in 1945. Meanwhile American troops were fighting the Battle of the Bulge, and eventual assaults on the Westwall at places like Aachen. This is covered well on our Arhem and Rhine Crossing tour - which I can thoroughly recommend.
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Posted Friday, March 23, 2007
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| Thanks Paul. I knew about the "Battle of the Bulge" a term I personally don't like, when the Germans broke through in the Ardennes was it just the Americans who were involved? or did we have any input. Re: further tours....my party are on the "Market Garden" trip on 16th. August I am going over to the Somme in July on my own steam, having done the "All Quiet on the Western Front" tour with Leger last July. I'm trying to get my party on the Dakota D-Day tour, subject to price... Thanks again, Ed.
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Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007
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| Myself and my "Band of Brothers" are going on the Market Garden trip on the 16th. August. Has the guide been allocated yet? If so, who is it? Thanks, Ed. 
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Posted Sunday, September 16, 2007
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| Of all the WW11 veterans I have known and still know, guys from the Malta convoys, D-Day, Italian campaign, even the sister in law of "Cockleshell Hero" James Conway, they have ALL told me the same thing......... That the Germans knew we were coming to Arnhem and it was no coincidence that the Elite SS Panzer Divisions were there in waiting. The story history tells us, is that a British Officer who was killed on landing in a glider, had the whole plan of the operation on his person...This I cannot believe!!!!!!! O.K. if he did, that was on 17th September, the Germans could not have dispatched the men necessary to amount the defence that they eventually did. Does anyone think, like I do, that the Germans had been told about the operation before it happened? (Careless talk Costs Lives) Look forward to your thoughts. Ed.
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