AHC: Audie Murphy saves Operation Market-Garden

Let's assume Murphy somehow gets a waiver for height and is picked up for paratroop school and ends up in either the 82nd or 101st Airborne. With minimal butterflies Market-Garden is executed in September 1944. Although I know one man alone cannot be responsible for the success or failure of such a massive undertaking, describe a scenario in which Murphy wins his Medal of Honor in such a way that his heroism is widely held to have been essential in the success of Market-Garden.
 
Will possibly be a possible though I have some difficulty in describing such but seems to me the US para. div.s did their job right one of the major problem being the advance going up only one road and the Germans being too prepared for a possible Allied Air operation negating the near perfect drop achieved according to Sebastian Richie in Armhem Myth and Reality.
The one road advance is possibly the difficult part to overcome as there don't seems to have been that many bridges across the various rivers in the day as there isn't today! The bridges would in any scenario become choke points.
So even if Murphy manages to land on an intact bridge up- or downstream from Son which was an delaying factor he still have to convince the advancing XXX. corps to deviate from plan and go his way. Should that be the deciding factor of XXX. corps getting to and across the Arnhem bridge in time to relieve the British Para's he may just get a citation of his modest contribution to a battle that basically went to plan as nobody would know of the OTL disaster! ;)
 
My father use to call Audie Murphy as the only actor in Hollywood who was better at being a hero in real life then he was in the movies.
Dad met Murphy once and also called him a real SOB.

Not sure of any way that Murphy could make a change in the events of Market Garden to win a MOH. As Arctic Warrior points out, the problems has less to do with the airborne and more with the single road.
 
The single road, the two day drop etc, there's a lot that went wrong at Market Garden in the planning stage and really that's what made it a failure, it was too ambitious too, I don't see how one person, no matter how brave could change that. To make Market Garden work you'd need the General in charge to have a car crash or something well beforehand, and for folks to sit down and have a look at how bad the plan was and try and re-work it. Problem is, its Monty's plan and that man took to criticism about as well as pure sodium takes to being put in a bucket of water.
 
My father use to call Audie Murphy as the only actor in Hollywood who was better at being a hero in real life then he was in the movies.
Dad met Murphy once and also called him a real SOB.

Not sure of any way that Murphy could make a change in the events of Market Garden to win a MOH. As Arctic Warrior points out, the problems has less to do with the airborne and more with the single road.

The plan took it as a given that the German will to fight was gone. That has always been my analysis of the situation, that the Western Allies assumed the German army was a beaten enemy in the psychological sense. 'Defeat is something that happens in the mind of the Enemy' and all that.

The actual fighting in Market Garden would seem to indicate that fighting spirit was something the Wehrmacht had in abundance. As opposed to pretty much anything else...
 
Let's assume Murphy somehow gets a waiver for height and is picked up for paratroop school and ends up in either the 82nd or 101st Airborne. With minimal butterflies Market-Garden is executed in September 1944. Although I know one man alone cannot be responsible for the success or failure of such a massive undertaking, describe a scenario in which Murphy wins his Medal of Honor in such a way that his heroism is widely held to have been essential in the success of Market-Garden.

Takes Nijmegen bridge on Day 1...
 
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