M4Jess
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Operation Market Garden*
Sunday, 17 September, 1944*
Scenario One*
Air Drop at Arnhem*
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Early in the morning several targets in the Netherlands are being attacked by more than 1,700 bombers and fighters of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, Fighter Command and the Second Tactical Air Force and of the American 8th Air Force.*
At 9.45hrs the first of a total of 2,023 transport airplanes and tugs towing gliders take off from 24 airfields in England to transport the airborne troops to the landing areas in the Netherlands.*
The bridge over the River Meuse near Grave is occupied by the 82nd and the bridges in the sector of the 101st are taken undamaged, except for the bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal in Son which is blown up by the Germans just before the para's arrive.*
In total 20,000 men, 511 vehicles, 330 guns and 590 tons of material are flown over.*
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The Scenario*
Between 13.00 and 14.00hrs the lst British Airborne Division is dropped near Arnhem and Oosterbeek,The British 2nd Para Battalion under command of Lt.-Col. J. Frost moves out for the northern ramp of the bridge over the River Rhine in Arnhem at about 19.30hrs*
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Scenarios By*
M4 Jess*
Playtest*
Don "Aberdeen" Stumpf
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