Battle of Arnhem WW2 2 day tour - With TET Battlefield Tours

Dates	Tour (Click on links for more details)	No. of Days	Price*
August 26th - 28th 2022	Operation Market Garden - 3 Day Tour	3	£399 per person*

Battle of Arnhem - DAY 1

Joe's Bridge

We start your Battle of Arnhem WW2 tour by leaving London for Brussels via Eurostar. Your Chaueffuer/guide will pick you up from Brussels trian station and start the tour by driving an hour to Leopoldsberg to see where Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks,

commander of XXX Corps give his speech to his officers at the cinama in Leopsburg. We Drive to Joe’s bridge on the Meuse-Escaut Canal and discuss the launch of ‘Garden’ and the slow advance on hells highway through to Valkensvaard.

We look at the Irish Guards assault and see their graves at Valkenswaard War Cemetery. We then see the vast German cemetery at Ysselsteyn before visiting the impressive Overloon War Museum. After lunch, we resume the XXX Corps route at the Grave Bridge, before looking at the tough fighting for Nijmegen and the crossing of the Waal River by American Airborne forces. We follow ‘Hell’s Highway’ from the 101st(US) Airborne ‘Market’ drop zones across the Son Bridge to the 82nd(US) Airborne seizure of the bridge at Grave. We analyse the assault river crossing of the massive Waal Bridge at Nijmegen and the tenacious defence of its citadel by the 10th SS. Continue to Arnhem

Operation market garden ww2 paratroopers

Battle of Arnhem - DAY 2

ARNHEM: THE ASSAULT

We explore the 1st airborne Division landings west of Arnhem and its attempts to reach the bridge across the lower Rhine. We examine and walk the capture and heroic defence of the Arnhem bridge by 2 Para, against overwhelming attacks by SS infantry and panzers.

Operation Market Garden WW2 (Battle of Arnhem) came to a stop in Arnhem. The bridge across the Rhine in this city was the last bridge the Allied forces needed to capture to ensure the success of the operation. It was also the farthest removed from the starting point of the British xxx Corps that was tasked with relieving the airborne forces. The paratroopers in Arnhem were expected to hold out for four days at the most. In the end they had to endure nine days of brutal fighting before retreating across the Rhine after the failure of Market Garden was inevitable. The British and Polish paratroopers that were dropped near Arnhem faced many problems.We visit the Hartenstein 1st Airborne Division headquarters and Airborne Museum and discuss the tenacious British defense of the epic airborne perimeter. We then move down to the Lower Rhine to cover the forlorn hope of the Polish parachute landings at Driel and the British evacuation across the river. We stay the night and drive to Brussels in the morning for our return Eurostar to London St Pancras.

This concludes your Battle of Arnhem tour. If you would like more information on what happened during the campaign, you can read more here at Wikipedia.

Operation Market Garden Tour (Battle of Arnhem)

Per Person

*£399

2 Day Tour

Private Guided Tour

A 2 day Operation Market Garden tour (Battle of Arnhem) price is £399 per person based on a minimum of 2 people on the tour.

This price includes your own private chauffeur battlefield guide, personal tour vehicle, hotel room for 1 night sharing a twin room, pickup/drop off at Brussels Eurostar Train Station in Belgium – which is only 1 hour 50 minutes from London.

On booking a 20% deposit is required with the remainder of the tour fee due 2 weeks before departure.

On booking you will be sent an in-depth itinerary and map of your tour.

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