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...Netherlands, the Canadian First Army found nothing easy. In Arnhem, infantrymen had to battle for every house. But in the Canadians' sweep to the North Sea, resistance virtually ended with the fall of Groningen...
...stoked a 66-mile smoke screen in hundreds of chemical generators strung along the river. The Germans had advertised their anticipation of airborne drops. But when they were made, German reaction was surprisingly light. One reason: the enemy had expected the drops farther east. Cautious Monty profited by the Arnhem lesson. This time the First Allied Airborne Army chuted to within artillery range of the ground forces...
Airborne's next show was the Arnhem drop, a bold effort to turn the German defenses on the lower Rhine. That gamble failed gallantly when the British ist Airborne, key division of the offensive, was badly cut up and finally forced to retire. Whatever the true explanation, nothing will ever persuade airborne men that the failure was not caused primarily by overcautious use of Field Marshal Montgomery's armor, which never broke through to relieve the beleaguered British division...
...correspondent who flew home just after Christmas to bring you his detailed understanding of Rundstedt's attack and Eisenhower's counterattack - Jim Shepley. And from Holland comes a TIME reporter who marched with Montgomery's men from D-plus-12 to Eindhoven and Nijmegen and Arnhem - Bill White...
...Allied attempt to flank the Westwall at Arnhem had failed. Germany's main eastern battlefront, along the Vistula River, was relatively quiet. Slowly, Eisenhower's margin of superiority in the west was worn down in frontal attacks against formidable defenses. V-E day was set back to 1944's end-then to May 1945. It was clear that the western Allies would need a lot more muscle to beat down their rugged, obdurate and resourceful...