#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran William L. Sandoval - VA News

Market-Garden was Montgomery's disaster. In my view this was a failed effort to show the world that Montgomery could be "versatile" and had more in his toolkit other than a left hook. But sending three airborne divisions up one narrow highway with so many bridges and then making them dependent for rescue on a large, armored force running up the same single highway in Holland was BAD. Terrible concept, made worse by the "We've got to do this!" impulse running through the airborne community, despite Allied intelligence information showing elements of two German Panzer divisions near the objectives. I understand the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade commander wondering which side the Market-Garden planners were on.