Word: nijmegeners
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...example, comes a correspondent who flew home just after Christmas to bring you his detailed understanding of Rundstedt's attack and Eisenhower's counterattack - Jim Shepley. And from Holland comes a TIME reporter who marched with Montgomery's men from D-plus-12 to Eindhoven and Nijmegen and Arnhem - Bill White...
...western front last week. In The Netherlands, German forces crossed the Maas River at two points, established one bridgehead north of Venlo (later wiped out by British counterattack), another near Geertruidenberg. The Germans claimed they had recaptured a town between the Waal and the Lek rivers northeast of Nijmegen. These northern sectors would probably now be flaring with all-out activity if Rundstedt's Ardennes offensive had kept on rolling beyond the Meuse...
...home a backwater of the times. But war intruded. First, from the Russian front came telegrams: Victoria's only son and Grace's grandson had both been killed in action. Then, one Sunday last September, an American paratrooper dropped into their garden during the battle for the Nijmegen Bridge. Shells screamed around the hillside house. Soon, some polite British officers called, telling them they were in danger and had better leave...
...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...
...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...