Hi wtid, The Para in the orange jump outfit is Jim Little who up until 1994 did Jump on the Saturday... Cheers Tom
There was no signal problems at Arnhem :p Ooooh! Touchy!! The best book on this particular subject, IMHO, is "Echoes From Arnhem" by Lewis Golden. He gives a very balanced and well reasoned explaination as to what went wrong...........
There was no signal problems at Arnhem :p No, that's why they probably destroyed the telephone exchange in Oosterbeek wich did had the connection with Arnhem. Not so smart. Ron..
Some of the Jedburgh Teams managed to have good comms with London via their BII sets - Team Claude at the Bridge lost their comms equipment on the drop- so no comms there. Their American WTO Sgt Carl Scott was killed later with 101st Airborne patrol probably while evading.
Ooooh! Touchy!! The best book on this particular subject, IMHO, is "Echoes From Arnhem" by Lewis Golden. He gives a very balanced and well reasoned explaination as to what went wrong........... I have it but not read it yet. I still reading the important part of WW2. The war was over by the time Arnhem happened
Some of the Jedburgh Teams managed to have good comms with London via their BII sets - Team Claude at the Bridge lost their comms equipment on the drop- so no comms there. Their American WTO Sgt Carl Scott was killed later with 101st Airborne patrol probably while evading. Just one Jedburgh team - besides Edward, they all lost their radio sets.
Just one Jedburgh team - besides Edward, they all lost their radio sets. Len Wilmott had good comms and Dudley was sending O/B Int from before the landings.
Len Wilmott had good comms and Dudley was sending O/B Int from before the landings. Indeed, Dudley was in and did send intel. But that team wasn't active at, or near, Arnhem.
No, that's why they probably destroyed the telephone exchange in Oosterbeek wich did had the connection with Arnhem. Not so smart. Ron.. Indeed. Direct contact with Arnhem and its vicinity was possible - till the Brits destroyed the telephone plant at Oosterbeek.
Sadi Kirschen (Captain King) of the Belgian SAS was in Ede and had excellent radio communications with London. They asked him to send one of his men (Regner) into Arnhem to bring an Airborne Officer out to giver a report back to London on his set. Unfortunately Regner didn't get through - this was primarily the fault of an American Pilot evader who had never heard of the SAS and told the resistance that had gone to him for advice not to help him. John John
The ex-UK Army Air Corps officer John Greenacre appears in a few threads, but not on this specific subject. Just found a 2006 article in a journal I'd not heard of, the topic is: Assessing the Reasons for Failure: 1st British Airborne Division Signal Communications during Operation ‘Market Garden’ . There is no Abstract and free access is via: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1470243042000344777?src= Google found another on the theme: Battle of Arnhem comms analysis by John Berry (pub. 2004) via: Battle of Arnhem comms analysis John Berry 2004 – PA3ECT Military radio They are both now rather dated and Arnhem is not my focus.