World War Two

Season 6, Episode 38

Episode Title: Week 265 - Operation Market Garden Begins - WW2 - September 23, 1944

Air Date: 2023-09-23

Overview:

Monty's Operation(s) Market Garden, to drop men deep in the German rear in the Netherlands and secure a series of bridges, begins this week, but has serious trouble. In Italy the Allies take Rimini and San Marino, but over in the south seas in Peleliu the Americans have serious problems with the Japanese resistance. Finland and the USSR sign an armistice, and in Estonia the Soviets take Tallinn, and there are Soviet plans being made to enter Yugoslavia.