Operation Market Garden WI

WI General Frederick Browning and his I British Airborne Corps HQ is shot down en route or they are killed/captured while landing?
 
I think one might have to look at ground forces to make a difference to Operation Market Garden.

The task for the British/Polish airborne troops was to seize the bridge at Arnhem and secure it until ground forces arrived. They reached and seized the bridge but the ground forces never made it to Arnhem. There is a whole panoply of bravery, good and bad planning and intelligence around the actions but the key objective was acheived.
 
The Airborne didn't even take the bridge. 1 Battalion cleared the bridge but never secured both ends. The inablilty to drop/land all the necessary combat power near the bridges and the unknown presence of 2 SS Panzer Divisions in the AO doomed any success at Arnhem.
If Boy Brownings staff was not able to do any work to coordinate the bridgeheads and the corridor XXX Corps needed to traverse, the Allies would never have even secured Nijmegen. A valiant effort that seemed to almost make it would have been an outright failure.
 
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