ports said that our parachutists had captured the northern end of the bridge while the Germans held the southern end, but neither could get out on to the bridge itself without being shot up. “Our paratroopers holding the northern end have been subjected to a very heavy counter-attack and shelled continuously. The Germans claim that most of them were taken prisoner. If so. the reason the Germans have not blown up the bridge is that they hope to recapture Nijmegen, toward which they have been counter-attacking from the' east for 48 hours, but they have been easily held by American parachutists. assisted by British tanks and artillery. Most of the attacks came towards Beck, on the frontier, three miles .. st of Nijmegen, from the enemy holding the Reichwald Forest, in Germany,”
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24372, 26 September 1944, Page 5
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