HEROES OF ARNHEM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 10 April 1945, Page 5

HEROES OF ARNHEM

FORMAL AMERICAN TRIBUTE London, Apl. 8. America has paid a formal ceremonial tribute to the British airborne heroes of the battle of Arnhem, says a military correspondent. At a special investiture 300 officers and men who escaped from Arnhem last September saw 33 of their colleagues decorated by Lieut.-General Lewis H. Brereton, Commander of the First Allied Airborne Army. The Distinguished Service Cross was awarded to ten officers and men. the Silver Star to 10 others and the Broi-ze Star to a further 13. In addition the Bronze Star had been awarded to two glider pilots for heroism at Arnhem. One has since been killed in a flying accident and the other was killed helping the British ‘Sixth Airborne Division over the Rhine recently. MORE LIKE MURDER THAN WAR London, April 8. Tne “Daily ‘Mail’s” correspondent on tne Western Front says: "The speed and incidental details of this campaign make it extraordinarily interesting to be here, but tactically it is growing almost dull Thew process of occupation is repeating itself over and over again We each day take a new set of towns, villages and districts. They do not differ much from those we took the day before, and there is hardly any military situation at all. When anything violent happens it seems more like murder than war, and then suddenly you see and hear something that pulls you op short. To-day I saw a thick, good-looking silver propelling pencil. It looks like a pencil, in fact, it is a pencil, but at the other end it shoots a bullet that can kill. It is said to be the weapon with which the Hitler youth is being equipped "