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Arnhem Bridge. El Alamein epitomized Montgomery's battlefield style: a long, careful buildup of matériel superiority followed by a massive frontal attack with secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat...
...they had been at El Alamein, Mareth, Enfidaville and Italy's Gustaf Line, the Germans were entrenched again. Now it was the Gothic Line, a complex of concrete pillboxes behind a maze of mine fields and barbed wire entanglements north of Italy's Arno River. Manning the positions were twelve divisions of stubborn Huns commanded by able Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. Their orders: to hold until the last day of summer...
This is Jack Belden, veteran of the war in China, of Stilwell's retreat from Burma and Montgomery's desert victory, of the Mareth Line, of Sicily and of Salerno, where he was so badly wounded during the first landings that he spent months in a hospital. It was only last week, still limping, he was able to get off to the wars again...
With the first landing party was Jack Belden, veteran of four years' fighting in China, companion of General Stilwell in the retreat from Burma, often under fire with the British Eighth Army as it swept across the Mareth Line and up through Tunisia...
...dwindling air power had been sucked to the north and was being shot to pieces. But Mary Coningham, blessed with plenty of U.S. and R.A.F. power, also furnished the light bombers and fighters to blast the way for Montgomery's troops on the ground in the Mareth area...