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...Eastward on the Adriatic, the British Eighth Army, which had actually been the first to break the Gothic Line (by capturing Rimini), was making slow prog ress across a lacework of canals and rivers. Home-front strategists who had talked of "debouching into the plain" with tanks had failed to consider these obstacles, failed to consider the skill and determination of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's armies. German tanks were still able to counterattack. They contrived to drive the Eighth from a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino River swollen into a deep, swift torrent by steady rains...
...their few boats again, crossed the Lek to relieve the men in the "patch of hell." Gradually the Allied foothold across the Lek was strengthened. But still there was no letup of the German pressure. For this was also a battle of desperation for the Germans. U.S. columns advancing eastward from the rescue corridor drove into German territory a few miles from Cleve, the anchor of the Siegfried Line. This was not merely a battle to rescue the British airborne. It was a battle to turn the whole right flank of the German army...
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...
Rain of Death. The two forces collided on the morning of Sept. 3, southwest of Mons. Fighter planes operating with the advance armor early discovered nearly 1500 enemy vehicles heading eastward toward the American lines, and immediately attacked them. Jammed on the roads in double and triple columns, the Germans still pressed eastward, for to them that was the way to safety and Germany...
...well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River, to gain time. General Patton's Third Army crossed the Moselle last week but suffered heavy losses doing it, cleared a long section of the Maginot forts, found many of its eastward-pointed guns still operable...