A Bridge Too Far Sketch

[BruceHMX]

Just an estimate how long would they have been in the air from England to the DZ's in Holland? I can't imagine sitting in one of those and taking flak or let alone being in one for a long period of time.

[BruceHMX]

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Who knows perhaps we will see Peter Laidler instructing Churchill on the finer points of a Number 4 rifle.

[Flying10uk]

My family do remember seeing large numbers of gliders being towed, passing overhead, while living on the Essex coast near Clacton on Sea. From talking to family members I believe that this happened for the Arnhem operation and the Rhein Crossing and these aircraft would most likely have taken off from airfields in the south west of England.

[Paul S.]

Just an estimate how long would they have been in the air from England to the DZ's in Holland? I can't imagine sitting in one of those and taking flak or let alone being in one for a long period of time.

Given that it's ~331 road miles from Gatwick to Arnhem, and being towed straight line - or there about - behind a Manchester I'd say you'd be in the thing for ~ 2 to 2.5+ hours from load time to landing. Knowing military planning from experience as many of us do, we can say probably more like 4 hours.



Mate, you'd need a cut lunch and an empty beer bottle or two.

[Chainfire]

Did the term "A Bridge Too Far" exist/was wildly known before the film of the same title came out which tells the story of the battle of Arnhem? It always seems a silly phase to me because there wouldn't seem much point to the operation if the intention wasn't to capture the Arnhem bridge. To put it another way, it was my understanding that the whole point of Operation Market Garden was to capture the bridge at Arnhem, in tact, and also the bridges between it and the allied lines.

I think that the term refers to the notion that the plan was overambitious, by at least one bridge. It was a bad plan and everyone but Montgomery knew it.

[Flying10uk]

If the bridges at Arnhem, road and rail, had not been included in the original plan it's difficult to see the point of the whole operation.

[TDH]

My son has a theory that these so called actors who have made a very healthy career on action movies and bang bang shoot em ups that come out against firearms and private ownership there of have probably got themselves into some legal problems or tax problems and in order to cut a deal and said problems disappear become government mouthpieces.

Personally when he started I thought Craig was a great Bond until he started spouting his liberal crap about personal ownership of firearms and that comes from a guy who can shoot down a flying helicopter with a .380 from a quarter of a mile away when the nine wasn't enough gun. I hadn't heard Connery turned on us. Baldwin is a horrible actor with known anger issues. Penn has done some good work and his best part was as a retarded man trying to raise a young daughter on his own. Type casting? I won't get rid of my copy of Saving Private Ryan because of Matt Damon but I wish they had cast that part better than "MR OMG she'd only be one heartbeat from the Oval Office" so thanks for crazy old Uncle JOE.

[Paul S.]

I would suggest that is it more likely that actors in today's world become and stay successful by having and espousing the ideologies of the Hollywood elites. Otherwise, ...

[Peter Laidler]

Back to the origins of this post if I may......... I know the wife of a really good friend (no, not in the biblical sense you understand......) who was a truly great life like drawer and colour-in afterwards with wishy-washy lifelike colours afterwards person. Horses, people....... absolutely fantastic (but not cars or vehicles). I suggested to her once that she ought to do a run of A3 or so prints, suitable for framing of, say, a wartime sniper team in France or Belgium. We could have provided her with suitable knocked down brick barns and out buildings, clothing and weapons/equipment so that it would be dead right. The variations would be endless. A fighting patrol resting up in a ditch, snipers hiding in a pig sty pondering over a map, orientated with air photo using a compass....... endless possibilities and mail order too. But nope....... What a shame!

Her forte was facial expressions. Worn out and haggard farmers...... You know the sort of thing. Tired faces of snipers and dirty unwashed platoon Corporals would have been at the point of exact likeness