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...north other cracks appeared. "Texas Bill" Simpson's Ninth, wed in battle to units of Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's British Second Army, slugged into heavily fortified Geilenkirchen, cut through the first deep defenses of the Siegfried Line. Geilenkirchen was a classic of teamwork; Germans were trapped between U.S. and British units. Within a few hours American G.I.s riding British tanks had pushed on into the Würm valley for three miles. The crust had softened. There were signs of limited German withdrawals...
...Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, required four months to reduce the fortress of 's Hertogenbosch. Last week Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's Second British Army did it in three days...
Millions of Americans, who had almost forgotten Al Smith the politician, remembered him as a symbol of a wonderful era-the years of the never-ending bull market, of the hip flask, of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Dempsey fights. Al Smith's hoarse and genial East Side voice, his chewed cigar, his violent pajamas and his rasping expletive, "Baloney!" belonged to the fabulous '20s as much as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'. He was against the Volstead Act; and in the '20s the U.S. almost elected him its President...
...unlike checkers, the enemy pieces that have been hopped over are not thereby swept from the board. They have to be removed by force. It was the job of 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...
...Arnhem. Meanwhile General Dempsey's rescue force itself was in a ticklish spot. It had pierced a narrow slit into enemy territory. Behind it the Germans rushed in to cut it off. By furious tank attacks, the Germans at one point seized the road that was Dempsey's supply lifeline. After anxious hours they were thrown back, only to try again at another point. One mile from the slim corridor of advance, airborne Americans smashed a German concentration. A call for help brought rocket-firing aircraft into play against the tanks, and the second thrust was beaten back...