Word: arnhem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arnhem, where the Allies had at stake the fate of perhaps 8,000 men, the Germans faced the loss of several times that number in western Holland, with the added prospect of having the Siegfried Line turned at its northern end, and the whole of north Germany laid open to invasion. At week's end it appeared that the greater part of the Allied stake would be saved and the greater part of the German stake would be lost...
...Rhine divides (into the Waal and Lek) for its final course to the sea. Here the rich burghers of Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam once had summer villas and liked to call its pleasant hills and forested hummocks "Little Switzerland." Here there were three fine towns: Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, rich in the histories of ancient wars and in the traditions of peaceful living. And here Allied parachutists dropped behind German units like pieces on a checkerboard hopping over their opposition...
...Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's British Second Army to push through on the dotted line traced by the chutists, first to the airborne pioneers who dropped near Eindhoven, next to those at Nijmegen (the crossing of the Waal) and finally to those furthest ahead at Arnhem (the crossing...
Bridgehead on the Lek. Nijmegen was a 24-hour sweet dream of tactical triumph. Arnhem, ten miles to the north, was a week-long nightmare. The British airborne division had descended north of Arnhem (pop. 80,000), which lies on the north side of its river. The airborne British, storming in to seize the bridge, had run into hot trouble half a mile short of it. Germans in force held houses, parks and wooded sections in the faubourg. The paratroops fought house to house, day & night. They occupied a small area, battered by big guns, thumped by mortars, clipped...
...years to come any man says to you, I fought with the Arnhem airborne force,' take off your hat to him and buy him a drink. . . . The few of Arnhem will rank in glory with the few of the Battle of Britain...