View Single Post
  #5  
Old 1st July 2007, 03:34
Amrit1 Amrit1 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 326
Amrit1 is on a distinguished road
Re: PR photo that almost stopped operation Market-Garden

No new info but you maybe interested in reading this, Adriano:

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/peo...rt04-con6.html

and:

http://www.tacticaloperationscenter.com/Intell-M-G.htm

Quote:
Major Brian Urquhart, the twenty-five year old intelligence chief on LTG Roy Browning's I Airborne Corps staff, was sufficiently alarmed to request that air reconnaissance be flown over the Arnhem area on 12 September, five days prior to D-Day. However, because of bad weather, sorties employing a total of eight aircraft were only flown on 12 and 16 September. Of the results of these flights though, there is a marked discrepancy. While the official post-war narrative says that "nothing significant" was observed; Major Urquhart recalled that five oblique angle pictures showed "the unmistakable presence of German armor" in the Arnhem area.
Reply With Quote