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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
Its like when the 82nd and 101st were left under British control following the failure of Market Garden. Left to secure the south bank of the Rhine while the British withdrew units to higher ground.
Already exhausted by the heavy fighting to hold the corridor open, now left in an area that the Germans were getting ready to flood, no armor support, their only artillery support aside from the 75mm pack hows of the division artillery was a regiment of worn out 5.5-inch guns and dependent upon all supply from the British.
Accounts from both divisions testify to the heavy artillery fire that they had to endure. It was only when Eisenhower demanded the release of his airborne divisions that Monty finally released them back to reserve...just in time to be thrown into the Battle of the Bulge.
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Yeah well both those units and the British/Allied Airborne units up until this point had longer rest due to operation running faster then expected, all of them were left in the field way longer than were originally planned. It one of those mistakes I am sure that will be made in the T2K war too in which Light units would be pressed into service much longer to the breaking point before being relieved and then needing extra long time to reconstitute and reorganized.