I was reminded this morning that on this day in 1944 during the planning for Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands, Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning said to Field Marshal Montgomery, "But, Sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far". After succeeding on the mission’s first few objectives, the British 1st Airborne division was not able to secure the bridge over the Rhine in Arnheim, ultimately resulting in the last major allied defeat of WWII. This morning tidbit led me to ponde…
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