 As Market Garden progressed, the company and the rest of the 101st joined the 82nd Airborne on "the island" north of Nijmegen.At the conclusion of Market Garden, the company relieved the British 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division in Zetten.On 5 October 1944, 1st platoon fought in the battle of "the island" that lay between the Lower Rhine and the Waal river.