Market Garden and Airborne Guru's

Did operations around Nijmegen have a seperate operational name?

I'm already aware that collectively the airbornes drops were designated Op Market but I was wondering if each of the three divisonal areas were designated a another name.

Cheers

 

Dang it, now I'm going to have to look for that info as well Drew. Good question. Never thought of that before.

 

Drew,

I don't believe there were separate names. Everything I've read, simply refers to the 'Eindhoven Sector', 'Nijmegen Sector' and 'Arnhem Sector'. Remember that the plans for the entire op were drawn up in a week, on the back of Ops COMET and LINNET.

Steve W.

Steve W.

 

Cheers all,

It's not for me it's for Commando on WW2T (He's setting up a website about Nijmegen) and I thought I'd ask.

I thought that was the case Steve, certainly nothing is mentioned in ATB and they do appear to have covered all the bases. However I thought there maybe a possibility especially in the American sectors.

Regards

 

good point, anyone else has a definite ans?

 

From what I have understood they didn't have seperate names but the Op Market was the basically liberate Holland and have an open entrance into Germany.

 

Operation Market Garden was Sept 17 to 25, 1944.

Nijmegen was involved in further operations after the 2nd Canadian Corps relieved the 30th Corps in November 44. Fighting in the Nijmegen Salient is referred to as the Rhineland Campaign. It was from Nijmegen that operation Veritable was launched in Feb 45.

 

Cheers

 

So far I have found nothing to support any sub-operations with their own names. GPRegt's post seems to be the best answer as to why.

 

Yeah no worries...I knew it was a long shot from the start.

Keep me posted though on any developments about refusals though

Thanks for your efforts - much appreciated

 

I'm coming up on a lot of dead ends, but still looking. I will contact some of the 325th GIR veteran's groups to get some more leads. Not many of them left, and some might not want to talk about it.

 

I've never heard of the three areas of operations having their own 'names'......whilst the 1st AB Div used code words for the three bridges, Waterloo, Putney and Charing Cross, I'd agree with my learned colleague Steve W about 'Arnhem sector' etc....

 

AMB,

Thats a new one on me...Waterloo being Eindhoven, Putney=Nijmegen and Charing Cross=Arnhem I presume?

Regards

 

Drew 5233,
I checked the after battle report called "A Graphic History of the 82nd Airborne" - Operation Market Garden". No operation names are stated in the report other than "Market" and "Market Garden".

FYI, I just received a new book, in Dutch, about Nijmegen called: "Nijmegen 44" by Joost Rosendaal.
It is all about the -accidental- allied bombing of Nijmegen (and several other Dutch cities such as Arnhem and Enschede),
about Market Garden
and the more than five months constant shelling of the city, and other towns, by the Germans, which did not end until Operation Veritable was well on its way in early Feb 1945.

If you are interested check the website: "bol.com" of a bookstore that ships overseas.
Regards, Kuuk.

 

Cheers Kuuk,

It was just a curiosity Q. I didn't think there would have been anymore than what has been said about Arnhem.

Regards