Bridging Operation Market Garden: Keeping Up With The Joneses (Part 2)

Who was Lieutenant Tony Jones MC, and what did he find on Nijmegen road bridge? How did British sappers help the US 82nd Airborne cross the Waal in assault boats? Why couldn't 30 Corps push on the moment the bridge was taken?

Join Al Murray and James Holland for part 2 of Hurrah for the CRE, as the sappers' story reaches Nijmegen. Brigadier Jones finds assault boats for the Americans' river crossing, while his namesake Tony Jones, a young lieutenant in the van with the Grenadier Guards, rides across the road bridge to cut wires and clear demolition charges, taking 81 prisoners along the way.

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