Operation Market-Garden

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• Operation Market-Garden
• The goal was to get across the Rhine River

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The bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem
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Operation Market Garden it was partially
successful in reality it was an Allied defeat
It would be months before the Allies could cross
the Rhine River
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• Me-262
• Worlds first
• operational jet fighter
• If they had been used in
• large numbers against
• the Bombers it could
• have made a big
• difference but fortunately
• Hitler meddled in their production.

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• Capture of Aachen, first German city to fall

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McArthur Returns

• Invasion of the Philippines
• Battle of Leyte Gulf

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McArthurs return to the Philippines.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Battle of Leyte Gulf

• Largest naval battle in history
• Losses U.S. 6 ships, Japan 26 ships

Navy Large carriers Small Carriers Aircraft Battle ships Cruisers Destroyers
United States 8 24  1712 12  24 141 
Japan 1 3  117 9  20 34

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• FDR reelected for unprecedented 4th term

Looking haggard and run down by 1944.
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Battle of the Bulge

• 16 December to 25 January
• The situation for Germany Russians were
  approaching Germany, the Americans and British
  were on the other border.
• Hitler was desperate to turn the situation around

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• Hitler gathered up the remaining armored
  divisions and wanted to attack.
• There were so many Russians, an attack in that
  direction would hardly be a drop in the bucket.
• However these troops could make a difference vs
  the Anglo-Americans.

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• The plan was to attack in a quiet sector of the
  lines through a heavily forested mountain region
  that no one expected.
• They also planned the attack to coincide with a
  period of bad weather so the allies couldnt use
  their superior air power.

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• The Germans took the Americans completely by
  surprise.
• They captured large numbers of American troops.
• The Germans were counting on capturing American
  gas depots
• The 101st Airborne Division got cut off and
  surrounded at a town called Bastogne.
• When the Germans invited the Americans to
  surrender, the American commander replied Nuts!

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• The shape of the battle gave its name to the
  battle.
• Patton turned his Army north and relieved the
  troops at Bastogne.
• The German attack was spent after a week.
• It took the allies another month to restore the
  lines to their original point

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• Significance Last German offensive of the war.
• Hitler threw away the remaining armored strength
  of Germany
• The battle actually hastened the end of the war
  because if the forces used in the Battle of the
  Bulge had been used on the defensive, they could
  have delayed the allies.