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	British XXX Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		XXX Corps was assigned to hold the northern part of the line (though at this point, it was reinforced by units from XIII Corps, including the 1st South African Division since it was in extremely bad shape).
		On the July 10, 1943, XXX Corps was sent to invade the Italian island of Sicily.
		XXX Corps (under Lieutenant General Oliver Leese) was to compose the Left Flank of the British Eighth Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_XXX_Corps (2135 words)

	Frundsberg Unit History
		While Hohenstaufen was tasked with holding Arnhem town and blocking the advance of the British airborne troops from the west, Frundsberg was given the mission of defending the Waal Bridge at Nijmengen and blocking the Allied overland attack from the south.
		British XXX Corps under General Horrocks viciously pounded the town and on September 25, British forces penetrated the first houses of the town.
		XXX Corps and the Polish Brigade were unable to reach the 1st Airborne Division.
	www.frundsberg.org /unithistory.htm (2775 words)

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		However, one British battalion was able to establish a perimeter on the north side of the Arnhem bridge.
		XXX Corps was able to advance 20 miles relieving the 101st Airborne, but was forced to stop to repair the bridge at Son.
		XXX Corp artillery is now close enough to the British paratroops at Oosterbeek to provide support fire, but this does not diminish the desperation inside the ever-narrowing bridgehead.
	www.bartcop.com /arc4409.htm (3172 words)

	The Battle of the Bulge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 2d Armored and 75t Infantry Divisions and Corps artillery, cavalry, engineers, and service troops were still arriving in their assembly areas, but the 84th Division, which had earlier assembled around Marche, was actually in contact with leading elements of the German columns.
		The 3d Armored Division was attached, and the VII Corps line-up to stop the offensive drive was, from east to west: 3d Armored, 84th Infantry, and 2d Armored divisions, with the 75th Infantry Division in reserve.
		Most of the VII Corps front was pinched out by continued advances of the VIII Corps of the south and the XVIII Airborne Corps on the north, until only the 84th Division remained in the battle.
	members.aol.com /WWII7th/tbotb.html (1801 words)

	Untitled Document
		The British tried to make their new positions clear to the pilots, but the pilots were ordered not to pay any attention to events that took place on the ground.
		The XXX Corps could have continued their advance towards Arnhem now that the bridge was in Allied hands, but instead they stopped.
		XXX Corps’ action in the following days will be mentioned in the section of the co-operating airborne division.
	www.rememberseptember44.com /210944.htm (731 words)

	Summary
		XXX Corps waited for a pontoon bridge to be built over the Wilhelmina Canal to replace the blown Son Bridge which knocked XXX Corps 36 hours behind schedule!
		At 3:30 pm, XXX Corps arrived at Nijmegan but the attack on the bridge was stopped by the Germans.
		XXX Corps made the drive to Arnhem on a road the soldiers called the Island.
	www.angelfire.com /in/knights/summary.html (857 words)

	Readme
		In the late afternoon XXX Corps arrived in the southern outskirts of Eindhoven.
		XXX Corps gave artillery support to the main body of the 1st Airborne in Oosterbeek.
		XXX Corps should move north as quickly as possible, using the Sherman flail unit to clear minefields and engineer units to repair blown canal bridges.
	www.tecumseh.150m.com /OM-G/Readme.html (3250 words)

	Desert warfare: German experiences in World War II
		On the whole, however, the British motor vehicles, as a result of the extensive experience of the British in desert conditions, were superior to those of the Germans, being better adapted to the special conditions in respect to tires, power, higher ground clearance, and lower bodies.
		The motorized Italian corps was to follow immediately and was then to advance south of the Via Balbia, while the Africa Corps was to start out from an assembly area thirty kilometers south of the Via Balbia, in an enveloping pursuit designed to prevent the retreat of as many as possible of the enemy forces.
		The British attack opened on the northern part of the front, with the point of main effort shifting southward later, and by 29 October, the defenders had been forced to throw their last tactical reserves into the battle.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Toppe/toppe.asp (20391 words)

	Trévières
		British commando units were reported on the edge of Porten-Bessin, and by evening a juncture between V Corps and the British 50 Division was in sight.
		The British 47 Commandos entered Port-en-Bessin about 0800 and fought through the day to clear the area south from the port to the Aure River, while the 3d Battalion, 16th Infantry, blocked enemy escape to the west.
		Further south the British had entered Bayeux on 7 June, and were approaching the Drome crossings at Vaucelles and Sully by late afternoon of the 8th.
	www.wargamer.com /Hosted/CloseCombatOmaha/trvires.htm (2692 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The objectives for the Arnhem bridge were as follows, the road to Anrhem, which XXX corps was to travel down to reach Arnhem, a pontoon bridge if possible which was ¾ of a mile down the river, a railway bridge 2 miles down, and the key bridge in Arnhem.
		The British Airborne were not expecting anything more then young boys or old men to be in the area of Arnhem and were thus lightly equipped for combat against infantry units.
		It was obvious the XXX corps was not going to make it to Arnhem, and that the remaining British Airborne would not be able to break into Anrhem and relieve them, so he was forced to abandon the troops in Arnhem.
	www.planetcallofduty.com /sob/html/hist_arnhem.htm (1545 words)

	British I Airborne Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They were then to be relieved by formations of the British XXX Corps pushing into the bridgehead.
		During the operation the I Airborne Corps forces were carried from the United Kingdom in RAF Transport Command and IX Transport Command aircraft.
		The British division, and later the Polish brigade were dropped much further north, near the town of Arnhem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_I_Airborne_Corps (555 words)

	Operation Market Garden
		The British lst Airborne Division, reinforced by a Polish airborne unit, was dropped too far from its target, the Arnhem bridge, and more fundamentally, German strength in Arnhem was substantially greater than anticipated in the intelligence estimates.
		The British armored column, which was to break through to relieve the airborne forces, fell behind schedule as the tanks crawled along the narrow, congested roadway.
		The British were able to pull back some of their forces, but not before the Germans killed or captured more than 7,000 paratroopers; the two American airborne divisions fighting along the corridor lost more than 3,500.
	www.sanelson.com /82web/Mkt_Garden.htm (665 words)

	II. The History
		The Afrika Korps counter-attack against the British and retake Sollum and Capuzzo, although the Halfaya Pass remains in British hands.
		Rommel, who arrives back from Rome that day, is caught by surprise, allowing the British XXX Corps to advance 50-miles and capture the axis airfield 10 miles south of Sidi Rezegh.
		The battle of the 'Cauldron' begins as Rommel attacks the fortified box in the Gazala line that is held by the 150th Brigade of the British 50th Division.
	home.hiwaay.net /~tiller/glenn/alamein/Notes/II_The_History.htm (1716 words)

	Operation Overloard: The invasion of Fortress Europe
		But, the American and British armies were already fighting in North Africa and Sicily poised for an attack on Italy, and the craft required by such a force were not yet produced, so the invasion of Europe from the west would have to wait for another year.
		In the east, the British XXX Corps came ashore at Gold and the British I Corps landed at Juno and Sword beaches.
		The British also prearranged their LSTs so that the funnies would land in the order they were needed based on information about the German defenses.
	www.princeton.edu /~ferguson/adw/d-day.shtml (6564 words)

	OMAHA BEACHHEAD THE ATTACK OF 12-13 JUNE
		V Corps' attack was closely related to plans of the British XXX Corps for 12 June.
		V Corps and the British Second Army had met at their boundary on 8 June in the Port-en-Bessin area, but four days later, solid junction with VII Corps was still to be achieved.
		A curious report from LXXXIV Corps informed Army that the U.S. 1st Division was "newly identified" in the fighting northeast of St-Lo, and that the U.S. 29th Division, exhausted, was reported to have left the line.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/100-11/ch8.htm (5592 words)

	D-Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The U.S. VII Corps, with its 4th Infantry Division, was assigned Utah Beach.
		The lst and 29th Infantry Divisions of the U.S. V Corps were to land at Omaha.
		In the British I Corps, the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division would be landing at Juno and the British 3rd Infantry Division at Sword.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/tours/normandy/D-Day.html (1635 words)

	Canada; Uniforms of the Calgary Highlanders & RCMP
		While British XXX Corps was unable to meet their objective of linking up with British paratroopers in Arnhem, the US 82nd Airborne Division had nonetheless managed to capture an intact bridge at Nijmegen over the Waal River.
		British XXX Corps had passed through, and at the start of November were defending the area; now that the Scheldt was clear, the First Canadian Army was free to take over part of the line in this area.
		This style was used to both to emphasize the British nature of the force and to differentiate it from the blue American military uniforms.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-uniforms/canada.htm (1662 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Aiding Our Allies - Operation Husky
		Use XXX Corps and reinforcements at Malta to advance toward Foggia to cut the lines of supply of Axis forces in southern Italy.
		The British XXX Corps met the Italian Mantova and Lupi di Toscana Divisions and after a brief fight forced them to retreat toward Pescara, while the 7th Army drove the Italians south into Reggio di Calabria.
		The XIII Corps met the German 188th and 278th Infanterie Divisions, and the Italian Ariete Armored and Piave Infantry Divisions.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=176430 (2973 words)

	Operation Market Garden [Archive] - RAF662 CFSG Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The British para's in the northern-most pocket at Arnhem had a tough time: they were unable to get re-inforcements to the battailon occupying the bridge entrance despite of the arrival of the second wave.
		In the north the British para's were being driven back to their landing zones by the heavily armoured SS divisions.
		The rest of 1st British Airborne Division was being driven south onto the northern embankment of the Rhine.
	www.raf662.com /forums/archive/index.php?t-22159.html (10089 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| World War II: 101st Airborne Division Holds the Line Along Hell's Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For Market-Garden, it was hoped that the Americans, along with the British 1st Airborne Division, would launch a bold strike across the Maas, Waal and Neder Rijn (Rhine) rivers in Holland that would pave the way for ground troops to advance swiftly into Germany and end the war by Christmas of 1944.
		The troops would hold the bridges until relief appeared in the form of the British XXX Corps charging down the single road, crossing the bridges successively and arriving at Arnhem as the vanguard of a larger force pushing southeast into Germany.
		The final leg of the XXX Corps' drive involved a dash from Nijmegen to Arnhem, where the British 1st Airborne was to capture and hold three bridges across the Rhine.
	www.historynet.com /wwii/bloperationgarden (1347 words)

	A Bridge Too Far - Message Board - ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The British 1st Airborne Divison was dropped 9 miles from Arnhem and immediately started their march towards the city and the bridges.
		A few armored vehicles of the British XXX Corps reached the southern side of the Rhine on 23 September, 1944.
		What I thought was neat in regards to the Bridge at Arnheim is that when the British were forced to retreat, they had to leave their wounded behind and the Waffen SS medics gave them medical attention.
	pub133.ezboard.com /fpanzer4520frm17.showMessage?topicID=10.topic (390 words)

	DJ-> BOOK REVIEW
		The plan was that after key bridge sites on this road were secured by the paratroopers, the British XXX Corps was to pass through the airborne divisions and attack into Germany, thus flanking German forces in France in an attempt to thrust to Berlin to bring the war to a swift conclusion.
		British Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army, launching a massive offensive at El Alamein on 23rd October 1942, would push Panzerarmee Afrika west, through the Egyptian and Libyan deserts.
		For many reasons, including American inexperience, occasional poor British and American leadership, and an Allied underestimation of Axis speed, responsiveness, and defensive abilities, the final battle was fought not in Libya but in Tunisia.
	www.defencejournal.com /2004-12/br.asp (333 words)

	Axis History Factbook: 107. Panzer-Brigade
		British troops are about to make contact with the Americans in Eindhoven.
		The Brigade manages to destroy several British trucks of the British XXX Corps, including one on the bridge itself, but a 57mm AT- gun knocks out a Panther.
		In the early hours of 21.09.1944 the British VIII.Corps pushed forward again, in a new attempt to reach the decimated British paratroopers in the Arnhem area.
	www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=512 (2452 words)

	19 September 1944
		The British paratroops repeated attempts to reach the battalion at the Arnhem bridge fail.
		While the lead elements of XXX Corps were in Nijmegen units of the corps were still on the road in the sector of the 101st.
		This exacerbates the already difficult problem that XXX Corps has in supplying its forward elements along one narrow corridor that is sometimes under German attack.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/09/19.htm (3199 words)

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		This task was given to the British 1st Airborne Division, reinforced by the Polish 1st Airborne Brigade.
		The ground operation (Garden) was to see the British XXX Corps (Horrocks) break out of Belguim, drive up the main highway, and link up with all of the Airborne carpets - no longer than 48 hours after the jump-off.
		This become crucial in the case of the heavily motorized XXX Corps that cannot easily move off the raised highway, and that usually resembles an elongated parking lot with it's lead (infantry) elements trying to uncork some nasty, tough little German roadblock.
	grognard.com /reviews/hellshwy.txt (807 words)

	Normandy Tour by Private Plane and Car of the D-Day Beaches
		A British Tours Ltd guide, specialising in WWll and the Normandy landings, will meet you in the morning at your London hotel and drive you to Fairoaks Airfield in Surrey.
		Head back to coast over Port en Bessin and Arromanches, flying along Gold Beach where British Commandos and the XXX British Corps came ashore, and Juno and Sword Beaches where British Commandos, the 3rd British and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions came ashore.
		Jim is a former Group Captain in the Royal Air Force and Military Attache at the British Embassy in Paris.
	www.britishtours.com /normandy.html (546 words)

	missing-lynx.com - Gallery - Guy S W DeLillio's British XXX Corps at Arnhem dio, September 1944
		Here are some images portraying elements of British XXX Corps attempting to reach British First Airborne at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in mid-September 1944.
		Image 3 is entitled "Hell's Highway" and portrays XXX Corps held up along the single road to Arnhem.
		One Cromwell is MMS and the rest were modified Matchbox with scratch-built turrets.
	missing-lynx.com /gallery/dio/arnhembrits_dedelillo.html (225 words)

	Montgomery: How does history judge him? - Wild Bill Guarnere.Community
		There are exceptions, such as the perceived lack of aggressiveness of the British XXX Corps during Market Garden.
		The road up which XXX corps would have to travel to reach the bridges was narrow, just wide enough for two vehicles to pass.
		As the XXX corps tanks approached, they picked off the leading nine vehicles, bringing the whole column to a standstill.
	forums.wildbillguarnere.com /index.php?showtopic=110 (1587 words)

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