Word: hollander
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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...
...Hitler staff document. It called on officers to save themselves at all costs: "An officer's salvation in retreat is in the interests of the country." (Lately there has been a low percentage of officers among prisoners taken.) There was other evidence that officer groups, cut off in Holland, were deserting their men, either to save themselves to lead an untried, last-ditch army of civilians and military misfits or to go underground to keep Naziism alive...
Tied to the Ground. As the air army landed, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery sent his British Army crunching into Holland from the south. In 24 hours the British and the Airborne had joined at one wide point...
This week the 18th plan went through. In scope it was unprecedented. In operation it was smooth and apparently initially successful-a rare thing for the first job of such a complex kind. In the sky of Holland multicolored parachutes etched a pattern of future military history...
...further details Howlin' Mad Smith referred reporters to the War Department (because Ralph Smith is an Army general). The War Department referred them back to Holland Smith (because he had made the change in command). But a long hushed-up fact had been officially admitted. The story-still unofficial...