{"id":27932,"date":"2014-09-21T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27932"},"modified":"2020-03-02T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T19:56:21","slug":"dramatic-footage-of-british-troops-preparing-for-operation-market-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/dramatic-footage-of-british-troops-preparing-for-operation-market-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic Footage of British Troops Preparing for Operation Market Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly ten minutes of both British and German footage of the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/bcove.me\/gi9pkc9l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Operation Market<\/a> &mdash; the airborne assault on the Netherlands by British and American troops in September, 1944 (Operation Garden was the corresponding ground attack by Montgomery&#8217;s troops to reach the landings by one British and two American airborne divisions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forces.tv\/53978244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rows-of-Dakota-Aircraft-prior-to-take-off-for-Arnhem-Sept-17th-1944_0-830x640.jpg\" alt=\"Rows-of-Dakota-Aircraft-prior-to-take-off-for-Arnhem,-Sept-17th-1944_0\" width=\"830\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rows-of-Dakota-Aircraft-prior-to-take-off-for-Arnhem-Sept-17th-1944_0-830x640.jpg 830w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rows-of-Dakota-Aircraft-prior-to-take-off-for-Arnhem-Sept-17th-1944_0-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rows-of-Dakota-Aircraft-prior-to-take-off-for-Arnhem-Sept-17th-1944_0-480x370.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rows-of-Dakota-Aircraft-prior-to-take-off-for-Arnhem-Sept-17th-1944_0.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_27935\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forces.tv\/53978244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27935\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Paratroopers-descend-enmasse-at-the-DZs-near-Arnhem-September-1944_0.jpg\" alt=\"Paratroopers descend enmasse at the DZs near Arnhem, September 1944 Uploaded by: Mac Magreehan. (via Forces.TV)\" width=\"667\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Paratroopers-descend-enmasse-at-the-DZs-near-Arnhem-September-1944_0.jpg 667w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Paratroopers-descend-enmasse-at-the-DZs-near-Arnhem-September-1944_0-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Paratroopers-descend-enmasse-at-the-DZs-near-Arnhem-September-1944_0-480x336.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paratroopers descend enmasse at the DZs near Arnhem, September 1944 Uploaded by Mac Magreehan. (via <em>Forces.TV<\/em>)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>More photos of the operation can be viewed at <a href=\"http:\/\/forces.tv\/53978244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Forces.TV<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly ten minutes of both British and German footage of the launch of Operation Market &mdash; the airborne assault on the Netherlands by British and American troops in September, 1944 (Operation Garden was the corresponding ground attack by Montgomery&#8217;s troops to reach the landings by one British and two American airborne divisions. More photos of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,230],"tags":[222,1359,690],"class_list":["post-27932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-netherlands","tag-operationmarketgarden","tag-specialforces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55422,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27932\/revisions\/55422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}