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...Hodges' First Army, near Trier, enemy attacks pushed back one sharp wedge penetrating his "sacred soil." But by this week General Hodges had turned this local German success into futility: the Americans had thrust farther north and east at another point, stood only 18 miles from the Rhine...
...battle was fought in the undulating countryside just west of where the Rhine divides (into the Waal and Lek) for its final course to the sea. Here the rich burghers of Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam once had summer villas and liked to call its pleasant hills and forested hummocks "Little Switzerland." Here there were three fine towns: Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, rich in the histories of ancient wars and in the traditions of peaceful living. And here Allied parachutists dropped behind German units like pieces on a checkerboard hopping over their opposition...
...Second Army's speed. And the Second Army's speed depended in part on the paratroopers seizing bridges so that its tanks and big guns could roll ahead without interruption. The whole was a fine calculation of military risks to gain a foothold across the Rhine. In the first surprise the Second Army pushed to Eindhoven. Thereafter, as often happens in war, the stroke did not go according to plan...
...they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...
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...