Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 a tourist lookout. Now Belvedere was a fort again. Out of its doors and windows stuck the ugly snouts of German antitank guns. Atop...
Frontal assault on the tower was impossible for the light-weaponed Americans. Like Indians around a blockhouse they harassed it with fire from trees, doorways, windows. At last three British tanks rumbled up after their 20-mile spurt from Eindhoven. As they arrived the Belvedere's guns spoke-and all three tanks were knocked...
...much more time could be wasted on the tower. The U.S. paratroop commander decided to send his men across the river in small, rubber assault boats, to storm the long bridge from the north...
...British turned their artillery on the tower in earnest. Across the bridge suddenly appeared a U.S. flag: the north end had been cleared. As if they had rehearsed it for weeks, the infantry moved in to clean out the Germans on the slope behind the Belvedere. At last the tanks moved out across the bridge. There was still one moment of awful suspense as the first tank reached the central span: would the Germans' demolition charges in the bridge explode? They...
Since barter has its limitations, more often the G.I.s sell for cash. Informal G.I. markets have sprung up around the Arc de Triomphe, in the Place Pigalle, under the Eiffel Tower, in bistros, restaurants, around jeeps pausing in traffic jams. These sales give soldiers enough money to buy at Paris prices...