Operation Garden

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ground offensive military operation

Operation Garden was the ground offensive component of the World War II Allied Operation Market Garden, in which British XXX Corps advanced north through the Netherlands to link up with airborne forces.

Aliases (1)

Operation Market ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ground offensive → military operation →
airborneLinkupWith	British 1st Airborne Division → U.S. 101st Airborne Division → U.S. 82nd Airborne Division →
alliedPartner	Poland → United States →
belligerent	Allied forces → British Army → United Kingdom →
codenameRelationship	ground component of Operation Market Garden →
commandedUnit	British XXX Corps →
commander	Brian Horrocks →
conflict	Second World War →
consequence	continued German control of the lower Rhine crossings at Arnhem → prolongation of the war in the Netherlands →
countryInvolved	Netherlands →
endDate	1944-09-25 →
front	Western Front →
historicalAssessment	considered an ambitious but flawed ground operation →
location	Arnhem → Eindhoven → Eindhoven–Nijmegen–Arnhem corridor → Nijmegen →
mainUnit	British XXX Corps →
notableFeature	single narrow road corridor vulnerable to German counterattacks →
objective	advance north through the Netherlands → link up with Allied airborne forces → relieve airborne troops at Arnhem and other bridgeheads → secure a ground corridor to the Rhine →
opposedBy	German Army → Nazi Germany →
partOf	Allied strategy to outflank the Siegfried Line → Operation Market Garden →
planningNation	United Kingdom →
relatedOperation	Operation Market → Operation Market Garden →
result	failure to relieve all airborne forces at Arnhem → partial success in securing parts of the corridor →
startDate	1944-09-17 →
supportUnit	43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division → 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division → 8th Armoured Brigade → Guards Armoured Division →
theatre	European theatre of World War II →
typeOfAdvance	armoured ground thrust →
year	1944 →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Operation Market Garden →	hasPart
British XXX Corps →	notableOperation
Battle of Nijmegen (September 1944) →	relatedEvent
Operation Garden ("Operation Market") →	relatedOperation