Walter Model
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Otto Moritz Walter Model was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner
Model, c. 1942/43
Model (centre) on the Eastern Front, July 1941
Model with the overall commander of the 2nd Panzer Army and his direct superior, Heinz Guderian, in 1941
German armoured vehicles during Operation Citadel, summer 1943
Operation Market Garden
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Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War, fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a salient span
Walter Model
…return to command of Army Group B. On 17 September, his lunch was interrupted when the British 1st Airborne Division dropped into the town launching Operation Market Garden, the Allied attempt to capture the bridges on the lower Rhine, Maas and Waal. Model initially thought they were trying to capture him and his staff…
Paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army descending over the Netherlands
Operation Market Garden
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery
Infantry of 50th (Northumbrian) Division moving up past a knocked-out German 88mm gun near 'Joe's Bridge' over the Meuse-Escaut Canal in Belgium, 16 September 1944