In the fight to capture Bure and the surrounding villages, the units sustained heavy casualties.
The 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion lost about a third its strength: seven officers and 182 enlisted (68 killed in action).
The 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks, lost one officer and 20 enlisted (seven KIA).
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 23rd Hussars also suffered heavy casualties including the loss of sixteen Sherman tanks.
The Belgian SAS lost three men during the action whilst supporting the attack on Bure.

The 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion was pulled back from Bure and replaced by troops from the 29th Armoured Brigade.
The men of 6th Airborne went on to liberate Wavreille, Jemelle, On, Hargimont, Nassogne, Forrieres, Masbourg, Lesterny, Amberloup, Marloie, Waha and Roy.
At Bande on 11 January 1945, a patrol from the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion who had been in reserve, accompanied by the Belgian SAS, discovered the bodies of thirty four civilians who had been murdered by the Germans on Christmas Eve.

By the middle of 6 January the 6th Airborne Division withdrew to Holland and patrolled along the River Maas before returning to the United Kingdom in late February in preparation for their next undertaking in Operation Varsity.
When General Courtney Hodges commanding the First US Army joined up with General George S. Patton's Third US Army on 16 January 1945, the Allies launched a counter-offensive towards the German border which recaptured all the ground that had been gained during the offensive.
In the fight to capture Bure and the surrounding villages, the units sustained heavy casualties. The 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion lost about a third its strength: seven officers and 182 enlisted (68 killed in action). The 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks, lost one officer and 20 enlisted (seven KIA). The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 23rd Hussars also suffered heavy casualties including the loss of sixteen Sherman tanks. The Belgian SAS lost three men during the action whilst supporting the attack on Bure.
The 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion was pulled back from Bure and replaced by troops from the 29th Armoured Brigade. The men of 6th Airborne went on to liberate Wavreille, Jemelle, On, Hargimont, Nassogne, Forrieres, Masbourg, Lesterny, Amberloup, Marloie, Waha and Roy. At Bande on 11 January 1945, a patrol from the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion who had been in reserve, accompanied by the Belgian SAS, discovered the bodies of thirty four civilians who had been murdered by the Germans on Christmas Eve.
By the middle of 6 January the 6th Airborne Division withdrew to Holland and patrolled along the River Maas before returning to the United Kingdom in late February in preparation for their next undertaking in Operation Varsity. When General Courtney Hodges commanding the First US Army joined up with General George S. Patton's Third US Army on 16 January 1945, the Allies launched a counter-offensive towards the German border which recaptured all the ground that had been gained during the offensive.
Battle of Bure