Rukunin ya shafe bazara da bazara na 1944 yana horar da shiri don mamaye Turai. A watan Satumba rundunar ta shiga cikin Operation Market.
Ka yi haƙuri. Da yake tashi daga RAF Fairford a ranar 17 ga Satumba Thompson, mafi yawan ma'aikatan hedkwatarsa da biyu daga cikin batura uku na rundunar da mutanensa suka sauka ta hanyar jirgin sama a yammacin Oosterbeek, Arnhem. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan saukar Thompson an rubuta shi a matsayin "C.O. "kicking" saboda babu manufa don harba wuta, ya ce muna iya zuwa a rana mai zuwa. " Kashegari tare da isowar ragowar baturi, rundunar ta koma matsayi a kusa da cocin Oosterbeck don tallafawa yunƙurin da Brigade na 1 na Parachute ya yi don kutsawa zuwa gada Arnhem. Harin da 1st Parachute Brigade ya yi ya gaza kuma sojojin daga rundunonin sojoji hudu sun fara komawa zuwa matsayin Thompson. Thompson ya bar hedkwatarsa kuma ya ci gaba da ƙoƙari ya dawo da sojojin da suka koma baya zuwa matsayi na tsaro. Thompson ya shirya kimanin mutane 400 a cikin matsayi a kan hanya don kare wuraren da aka yi da bindigogi da kuma toshewa da kuma ci gaba da Jamus a kan hanya, yana sanya wadannan mutane a karkashin umurnin babban jami'in da ya samu, Major Robert Cain na kudancin Staffordshire Regiment, Thompson ya koma hedkwatarsa don bayar da rahoto ga kwamandansa, Brigadier Philip Hicks. Hicks ya aika da Major Richard Lonsdale na 11th Battalion, Parachute Regiment don taimakawa Thompson. Thompson ya sanya Londsale a matsayin kwamandan battalion na Parachute Regiment yayin da ya dauki umurnin mazaunan Kudancin Staffordshire baya ga rundunarsa da kuma mazaunan Glider Pilot Regiment. Dukkanin rundunar an sanya su "Thompson Force" ta 1st Airborne Division Headquarters.