Word: nijmegeners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing for the next plunge ahead. The U.S. Seventh Army slugged it out at Belfort, the Third at Metz, the British at Nijmegen, the Canadians on the coast...
...balance. If only they could prevent the gathering of force at the most dangerous spots. If only they could pierce through the wedge north of Aachen that threatened their most vulnerable point-where a narrow thrust had been driven toward the end of the West Wall above Nijmegen...
Across the Waal. To take Nijmegen (pop. 95,000) and its modern (less than ten years old) five-span, mile-and-a-half-long bridge was the task of American paratroopers who were landed south of the town. They found the Germans in command of both the north and south ends of the coveted bridge. Close by the bridge was open space-the tree-lined Hunerpark. Commanding its sweep was a red-brick tower: old Fort Belvedere, a relic of Charlemagne's reign. The lower floors of Belvedere had in peacetime housed a tea room, its tower had been...
Bridgehead on the Lek. Nijmegen was a 24-hour sweet dream of tactical triumph. Arnhem, ten miles to the north, was a week-long nightmare. The British airborne division had descended north of Arnhem (pop. 80,000), which lies on the north side of its river. The airborne British, storming in to seize the bridge, had run into hot trouble half a mile short of it. Germans in force held houses, parks and wooded sections in the faubourg. The paratroops fought house to house, day & night. They occupied a small area, battered by big guns, thumped by mortars, clipped...
...This week the censors allowed part of the non-exploded bridge story to come out: a young Dutch captain (unidentified) had parachuted in with the Americans, had telephoned instructions to patriots inside Nijmegen...