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* SittingDuck: When the Polish paratroopers finally join the battle, there's a squad of SS troops on the ground ready to pick them off during their descent.
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* SittingDuck: When the Polish paratroopers finally join the battle, there's a squad of SS troops on the ground ready to pick them off during their descent. In actuality, it's pretty hard to hit a descending parachutist--the vulnerable moment is when they reach the ground but haven't had time to form up for either defense or attack.
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Brigadier Lathbury is shot while trying to escape the Germans and tells Urquhart to leave him in the care of a Dutch couple.
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Brigadier Lathbury is shot while trying to escape the Germans and tells Urquhart to leave him in the care of a Dutch couple.couple, even though their only choice is to take him to a hospital and thus his inevitable capture by the Germans.
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It tells the story of Operation Market Garden (Sept. 17–25, 1944), an audacious, but flawed -- although ultimately unsuccessful -- Allied plan to use British, American, and Polish paratroops and British armored divisions to capture four bridges in the Netherlands. UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery hoped that these could be used by the British quarter of the Western Allied force in France to invade northern Germany, forcing the Germans to reinforce that sector with forces pulled from less vital fronts such as Hungary or Italy and perhaps ultimately enabling Germany's defeat within the next six months.
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It tells the story of Operation Market Garden (Sept. 17–25, 1944), an audacious, but flawed -- although and ultimately unsuccessful -- Allied plan to use British, American, and Polish paratroops and British armored divisions to capture four bridges in the Netherlands. UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery hoped that these could be used by the British quarter of the Western Allied force in France to invade northern Germany, forcing the Germans to reinforce that sector with forces pulled from less vital fronts such as Hungary or Italy and perhaps ultimately enabling Germany's defeat within the next six months.
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** When the Poles finally join the battle, it looks as though the British are going to get some badly needed reinforcements. Unfortunately, the Germans are already in the drop zones and begin picking them off in the air.
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* TacticalWithdrawal: After assuming command, Field Marshal von Rundstedt asks when the Allies are expected to invade the Netherlands. He's told that they've paused in Belgium, likely due to supply problems, and remarks "I think it's because we're retreating faster than they can advance."
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** After assuming command, Field Marshal von Rundstedt asks when the Allies are expected to invade the Netherlands. He's told that they've paused in Belgium, likely due to supply problems, and remarks "I think it's because we're retreating faster than they can advance.""
** Once XXX Corps arrive outside Arnhem, they're too exhausted to continue fighting and so the British paratroopers are forced to withdraw. Urquhart has the wounded remain to continue their defense while the others escape.
** After assuming command, Field Marshal von Rundstedt asks when the Allies are expected to invade the Netherlands. He's told that they've paused in Belgium, likely due to supply problems, and remarks "I think it's because we're retreating faster than they can advance.
** Once XXX Corps arrive outside Arnhem, they're too exhausted to continue fighting and so the British paratroopers are forced to withdraw. Urquhart has the wounded remain to continue their defense while the others escape.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: This goes for most of the senior officers in the field, fighting alongside their men. Robert Redford's character leads a dangerous river crossing and personally inflicts a large amount of the asskicking.
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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: This goes for most of the senior officers in the field, fighting alongside their men. Robert Redford's character leads a dangerous river crossing and personally inflicts a large amount of the asskicking.
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* KillItWithFire: The British attempt to take Arnhem bridge, but are repulsed by a machine gun bunker. That night, two paratroopers attempt to get it with a flamethrower, but miss and instead hit an ammo dump.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: General Urquhart appoints a subordinate to take charge of Brigadier Lathbury's brigade after he's wounded.
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* NiceDayDeadlyNight: Inverted. Because it's a no moon period, the drops take place during the day, as does much of the subsequent combat. The 82nd Airborne tries to take Nijmegen Bridge by night, but the boats don't arrive until the following day.
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** "Only the weather can stop us now!" And it does.
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** "Only the weather can stop us now!" And it does. The subsequent drops get delayed by fog, putting further strain on the troops already in Arnhem.
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* PetTheDog: SS-General Bittrich gives Frost some of the chocolate they found in a British supply drop.
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* PetTheDog: SS-General Bittrich gives Frost some of the chocolate they found in a British supply drop. Before that, Bittrich ultimately agrees to take all of the trapped British paratroopers into German captivity and even treat the wounded ones in German hospitals.
