Why did the Allied airborne forces fail the Operation Market Garden?

Answer 1

In one way... I think the title of the movie "A Bridge Too Far" says it rather well.

1) The Brits refused to believe the intelligence that pointed to SS-Waffen armor troops in the area. They thought it would be a simple operation.

2) The single road for the advance of British Armor units would not allow the speed and flexibility for the relief of Airborne units.

3) Other failings in Montgomery's planning: LZ/DZ placement, communications planning

I'm curious what might have happened IF US/Brit air-ground aircraft had been assigned in more force. Tank-busters (P-47 or Typhoon) allowed to patrol the area.

I went to the Arnhem and Nijmegan Bridges as a kid

Answer 2

They landed on top of an SS Division that had been pulled out of the front line to reorganise and the main forces couldn't get to the airborne forces before they were eliminated by the germans.

Answer 3

i could go on and on but the basic idea was, well poor intelligence for one thing, airborne forces stumbled into an are that had more german tank divisions then blades of grass. the airborne troops, lead by general montogomery, were reling on surprize to get them through the entire operation but there is only so mcuh that surprise can do against that many german tanks, to make things even worse montgomery decided that if he could just get more troops in that everything would be fine, as a result he just pured more and more and more troops into the fray, he actually dropped them in and then the germant anks on the ground waited to blow them to peices becuase once the germans realised what the hell was going on and it didnt take them long to do so they sent everything in to chrush these paratroopers who had not tank artillery or air support that far down away from the front lines as a result the y were massacred and the germans claimed victory rightfully so, it however, in the lng run was somewhat of a bad thing for them becuase adolf hitler, not almost physchotic and completely delusional, well what am i talking about he was psychotic, began to believe that his forces were once again invincible which caused hi to plan the battle of the bulge which turned into a complete and utter slaughter of german forces that came at the allied defenses in waves becuase of hitler blief in their own invincibility.

Answer 4

It failed because of Montgomery's refusal to admit that the whole operation was flawed from the start.
he was angered by his belief that the supreme allied commander
General Eisenhower was not giving the proper amount of consideration to his ideas on how the invasion of Europe should be conducted
His ego was bruised by what he felt was the usurping of his authority by the American command.
So in a nut shell a lot of good men died for no other reason then a flawed leader who made poor decisions based on a bruised ego blindly sent them to their deaths

Answer 5

failure of intelligence...presence of an unexpected armored division.