Operation Market Garden was the code name for the Battle of Catalonia, was a successful combined British and Commonwealth military operation that focused on the liberation of French-occupied Western Europe. It was the largest seaborne operation up to that time.The operation commenced on 6 May 1944 with the Catalonia landings (Operation Daedalus, commonly known as D-Day). A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the Mediterranean Sea on 6 May; more than three million troops were in France by the end of August.
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| - Operation: Market Garden (Communist World)
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| - Operation Market Garden was the code name for the Battle of Catalonia, was a successful combined British and Commonwealth military operation that focused on the liberation of French-occupied Western Europe. It was the largest seaborne operation up to that time.The operation commenced on 6 May 1944 with the Catalonia landings (Operation Daedalus, commonly known as D-Day). A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the Mediterranean Sea on 6 May; more than three million troops were in France by the end of August.
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Commanders
| - Bernard Montgomery
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
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Result
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Location
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| - Operation Market Garden was the code name for the Battle of Catalonia, was a successful combined British and Commonwealth military operation that focused on the liberation of French-occupied Western Europe. It was the largest seaborne operation up to that time.The operation commenced on 6 May 1944 with the Catalonia landings (Operation Daedalus, commonly known as D-Day). A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the Mediterranean Sea on 6 May; more than three million troops were in France by the end of August. Allied land forces that saw combat in Catalonia on D-Day itself came from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Free French Forces and Poland also participated in the battle after the assault phase, and there were also minor contingents from Spain, Greece, the Netherlands, and Norway. Other Allied nations participated in the naval and air forces. Once the beachheads were secured, a three-week military buildup occurred on the beaches before Operation Icarus, the operation to break out from the Catalonia beachhead, began. The battle for Catalonia continued for more than two months, with campaigns to expand the foothold on France, and concluded with the closing of the Falaise pocket on 24 August, the Battle of Paris on 30 September, was completed on 30 December 1944.
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