Oy Veghel

On the morning of 22 September, the U.S. 327th Glider Regiment’s 3rd Battalion was just moving into Veghel. Behind them came in the 1st Battalion Anti-Tank Platoon. Colonel Joseph Harper gave both his formations orders to push up the highway toward Uden and deploy to defend the …

1944-09-22

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On the morning of 22 September, the U.S. 327th Glider Regiment’s 3rd Battalion was just moving into Veghel. Behind them came in the 1st Battalion Anti-Tank Platoon. Colonel Joseph Harper gave both his formations orders to push up the highway toward Uden and deploy to defend the approaches from that town. Just outside Veghel, one AT gun set up in the middle of the highway; the other two lined up some 20 yards apart on the left. But even as these were being manhandled into position, the main thrust of Kampfgruppe Walther crashed into Uden. Fighting doggedly, a single battalion of the 501st deflected the initial armor attack, causing it to sheer off down the route to Veghel. Distracted by destroying a stalled British truck convoy, the panzers were only 150 yards from the American positions when the anti-tank guns opened fire.

Uden, Holland

Operation Market Garden was a failed World War II military operation fought in the Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. It was the brainchild of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery and strongly supported by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. The airborne part of the operation was undertaken by the First Allied Airborne Army with the land operation by XXX Corps of the British Second Army. The objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. This was to be achieved by seizing a series of nine bridges by Airborne forces with land forces swiftly following over the bridges. The operation succeeded in liberating the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen along with many towns, creating a 60 mi (97 km) salient into German-held territory limiting V-2 rocket launching sites. It failed, however, to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine, with the advance being halted at the river.

German

American

Scenario Type = Standard