Bellamy recalls seeing the gliders of Operation Market Garden moving toward Arnhem while his troop held a second-line position. Radio reports soon showed that the operation's initial success was becoming a crisis. The Guards Armoured Division and other formations had advanced along a corridor so thinly held that enemy forces repeatedly cut the road. Critical supply convoys could not pass, while scattered American 101st Airborne units held bridges without continuous contact, making the memoir a concise lesson in how vulnerable a single overextended logistical route can be.
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Arnhem's exposed supply corridor
Bellamy watches the Arnhem gliders pass overhead before learning how cuts to the narrow advance route stopped critical convoys.