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Barbara Simonds, 25, is an attractive brunette; she is also an M.D., now interning at Britain's Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Her first husband, an R.A.F. flyer, was shot down over France in 1943. Her second husband was killed at Arnhem...
...western front, from Arnhem to Switzerland, the battle had reached a stage close to stalemate, where some new factor seemed due to be injected and soon...
...Sleeve. In the Nijmegen-Arnhem salient, which the fearful Germans had flooded by opening the Waal dikes, General Crerar's Canadians, rested from the hellish battle of the Scheldt Estuary had wheeled into line again alongside the British. An all-out British-Canadian thrust across the Maas, or against the Arnhem flank, might put almost intolerable pressure on the German reserves, ease the way for a new U.S. push on Cologne...
...Seventh Army advanced in the Vosges; the French First Army broke through the Belfort Gap. Still in reserve were the First Canadian Army, and the First Airborne Army, which may now bring off a successful Arnhem operation-at Arnhem or somewhere else...
...week's end the Germans had completed a successful "disengagement." But the Allies, too, had done well. The Nijmegen salient, which had once stuck out toward Arnhem like a slender and sensitive thumb, was now a broad, strong fist, securing the whole left flank of the Allied line. The Berlin radio asserted that Montgomery was mounting a new attack against Arnhem, had already dropped "sabotage parachutists" north of the celebrated bridge. From Aachen to Arnhem, the Germans dug in deeper, and waited for the big blow...