69th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) their heads down waiting for it to explode. By the time they realised their mistake Hollis was on top of them and had shot them. Operation Market Garden (17 September 1944 – 25 September 1944) was an Allied military operation in World War II in the Netherlands and Germany. Market would employ three Airborne Divisions. The U.S. 101st Airborne Division, would drop in two locations just north of XXX Corps to take the bridges northwest of Eindhoven at Son and Veghel. The U.S. 82nd Airborne Division,would drop northeast of them to take the bridges at Grave and Nijmegen, and the
Airborne forces not dropped as a unit, but as a series of small (8–10 man) groups. Another operation, Operation Potato, was mounted by men drawn from the Folgore and Nembo divisions, operating with British equipment and under British command as No. 1 Italian Special Air Service Regiment. The men dropped in small groups from American C-47s and carried out a successful railway sabotage operation in northern Italy. The Allies had learned better tactics and logistics from their earlier airborne drops, and these lessons were applied for the assaults along the Western Front. One of the most famous of airborne operations was Operation