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The largest airborne operation in history began on a sunny Sunday in Spetember 1944. Now you can join with your friends to refight the entire campaign using your Flames of War troops. Can you change history, or will it be A Bridge Too Far.
Firestorm - Market Garden is a campaign based on Operation Market Garden, the Allied attempt in September 1944 to gain a crossing over the Lower Rhine after the break out from Normandy. The operation was divided into two parts: Operation Market, the biggest airborne landing of the war, and Operation Garden, an attack by 30 Corps to link up with the paras holding the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem.
Operation Market used two American airborne divisions to take and hold critical bridges across the rivers and canals between Eindhoven and Nijmegen, and a British airborne division to take the bridge across the Lower Rhine at Arnhem.
Operation Garden sent the Guards Armoured Division on a 64-mile (106km) advance through enemy territory, across the bridges that the US paratroopers were to take, then on to meet up with the British airborne division at Arnhem.
Firestorm - Market Garden is Battlefront's second Firestorm campaign following on from Firestormâ€â€Bagration. Like Bagration, Market Garden is a map-based campaign where the battles are fought out using the Flames Of War miniatures game.
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