Over the years there have been many reasons cited for the failure of Allied troops to reach a successful conclusion to Operation Market Garden. It has been repeated that the failure of radio communications during the battle was a key component in the failure of the mission. Until now it has been accepted by many that the communications could never have worked, due to the disparate state of the troops and the equipment they were using. However, John Berry, Managing Director of radiocommunications specialist ATDI has now undertaken a modern-day technical analysis of communications during the battle, and has reached a new, and startling conclusion: Despite history accepting that the Allies were asking too much of the radio equipment, they were not. A modern-day, thorough study of the equipment and techniques used back in 1944 shows that fundamentally the communications should have worked, as he explains...
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