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...Daaa. The big parade started: more than 1,000 C-47s accompanied by towed gliders that carried the field pieces, jeeps, munitions, food, even light tanks, even field-hospital equipment, all the thousand things a self-contained army needs...
Brereton's plane circled over The Neth erlands as the C-47s disgorged. The first paratroopers landed along the Rhine delta near the sea. Brereton's craft left them be hind, flew on over a huge expanse of flooded lowlands, where the bright red roofs of the white Dutch houses showed above the blue waters. Here the Germans had created a vast last ditch...
...More C-47s, the largest force of all, went farther eastward. Soon below them lay the great bend of the Rhine, where it turns west to the sea. There, near the Dutch town of Nijnegen, and only fourteen miles from the German city of Cleve, where the Siegfried Line ends, brown and white and yellow and blue parachutes soon filled the fields on both sides of the wide Rhine...
Over Munich three P-47s shot down a German fighter. But one of the Thunderbolts had taken a bad hit. Just before his ship crashed, Lieut. John F. Hayden, of Newton Center, Mass., radioed a calm, heart-wrenching message to his mates: "My arm is shot off-I'm going...
...bluff was called and the Army and Navy jointly acknowledged that Sergeant Foisie was more than right. On the night of July 10-11 U.S. airborne troops had "received antiaircraft fire from enemy ground forces and from friendly naval and ground forces with losses of 23 aircraft [C-47s] and 410 personnel...