 By the time the company was pulled off the line, they had taken 65 casualties including 22 killed in action, 17 of which including their commanding officer and first sergeant, who were killed on D-day when their plane was shot down.As part of the ultimately unsuccessful Operation Market Garden, E Company was assigned to support the British forces around Eindhoven by defending the roads and bridges that would allow British armored divisions to advance into Arnhem and force a crossing over the major bridge across the Rhine in September 1944.E Company landed on its designated drop zone in the Sonsche Forest, north west of Son, and marched down the road into Son behind the 2nd Battalion's other two companies.