FIGHT TO THE DEATH
AMERICANS’ GREAT COURAGE GRIM SCENE AT BRIDGE (Received Sept. 23, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 22 The British troops who crossed the Nijmegen bridge are still awed by the sight of the bridge approaches, says the Daily Mail’s correspondent with the British armour south of Arnhem. British soldiers, American paratroops and German S.S. men are lying dead in great piles on the approaches and the bridge itself. Many Americans are locked in death duels with the Germans. There are rifles, guns and ammunition scattered everywhere, mixed up with American rations and parachute packs. No British soldier participating in the action for the bridge will forget the courage and grim tenacity displayed by the Americans, who fought to the death for the bridge so that their British comrades could safely pass over. For every dead American there are six dead Germans.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22461, 23 September 1944, Page 5
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