MarketGarden 1944

The plan of action consisted of two operations:
Garden: ground forces of 2nd Army to move north spearheaded
by XXX Corps under Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks
Market: airborne forces of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army to seize bridges
and other terrain, under tactical command of
I Airborne Corps under Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning
Market would employ four of the 6divs of the 1st
Allied Airborne Army. The U.S. 101st Airborne Division,
under Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, would drop in
2 locations just north of XXX Corps to take the bridges northwest
of Eindhoven at Son and Veghel. The 82nd Airborne Division,
under Brigadier General James M. Gavin, would drop northeast
of them to take the bridges at Grave and Nijmegen and
the British 1st Airborne Division, under Major-General Roy Urquhart,
with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade,

Operation Market Garden. Wikipedia
The Free Encyclopedia. August 23, 2022

Operation Market Garden (17–25 Sept1944) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation planned,
and predominantly led, by the British. It was fought in the Netherlands
and Germany in World War II.
The success of the operation depended on taking a series
of 9 bridges, the last being at the city of Arnhem over the Rhine river.
Airborne and land forces succeeded in the liberation of the
Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen

Allies Strength41,628 airborne troops-1 armoured division
2 infantry divisions-1 armoured brigade
Casualties and losses:15,326–17,200 casualties-88 tanks
144 transport aircraft- Incomplete estimates
3,300–13,300 German casualties-30 tanks and SP guns-159 aircraft