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Frankly I think its amazing that all these people can expect to be repatriated, relatively problem free, it's like a bank collapse, but you have to herd people.
by benj111 7y ago
Frankly I think its amazing that all these people can expect to be repatriated, relatively problem free, it's like a bank collapse, but you have to herd people.
And the scale. Operation Market Garden only dropped 40,000 troops. D day only managed to land 150,000 on the first day.
- matwood 7y agoThe scale is larger, but figuring out how to move people around when an airline stops flying either through a strike or bankruptcy is not uncommon. As long as they can get people out of the vacation town and into a larger EU city, flights back to the UK become relatively easy. Years ago I showed up a Croatian airport to head home after a few weeks vacation and during that time the Croatian airline (pilots I guess) had gone on strike. It was a bit hectic, but eventually we were put on an unbranded private jet to Frankfurt. From there getting back to the US was no big deal.
- pjc50 7y agoOn the other hand, the tourists aren't being paradropped over hostile territory. Unless Thomas Cook had really gone downhill..
- benj111 7y agoI don't think they limited the amount of people they dropped on the Netherlands, or the people they threw at the Normandy beaches on the basis that they might be shot at. Logistics was the limiting factor.
- mcv 7y agoAnd jumping them out of a plane saves on landing and return flights, so in that sense, Normandy and Market Garden would be logistically simpler than Operation Matterhorn. Although I hope that Matterhorn doesn't require any bridgeheads to be conquered. It's also worth remembering that Market Garden failed in its final objective.