Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei waahanga - I tukuna te XVIII Corps ki Uropi i te 17 o Akuhata 1944 ka riro ko te XVIII Airborne Corps i te 25 o Akuhata 1944 i Ogbourne St. George, Ingarangi, i te mana o te 82nd me te 101st Airborne Divisions, hei waahanga o te whakarite mo te Operation Market Garden. I mua i tenei wa, i whakawhiwhia nga wehenga e rua ki te VII Corps ka peke ki Normandy i te Operation Overlord, te whakaekenga a Allied o Normandy, hei waahanga o te VII Corps. Ko Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, he rangatira rererangi tino ngaio, whai pukenga, whai wheako hoki i arahi i te 82nd Airborne Division i Sicily
I whiriwhiria e ia ki te whakahau i te ope, i hangaia i te 82nd me te 101st Airborne Divisions, a ko tetahi waahanga o te First Allied Airborne Army hou.