In Nijmegen, however, the British 30th Army took another 18 hours to repair and repair after clearing the remnants of the enemy in Nijmegen before setting out at midnight. And the scheduled rendezvous with the 1st Division was on the 18th, and a full three days had passed.

The Germans did not charge the village of Ousterbeck for fear of the British anti-tank guns, but instead attacked Arnhem and blasted house by house. However, the addition of Polish troops forced the Germans to send 2,400 troops to the south bank against the Polish 1st Brigade. During the night, the 30th Army finally arrived in Driel to join up with the Polish army. At the same time, 52 Polish soldiers crossed the Rhine to join the British on the north bank. However, attempts by the British and Polish forces to build a boat bridge over the river failed.

The Germans briefly cut off British-controlled Route 69, but were soon expelled from the area. On the 23rd, Canadian assault boats sent 150 Polish soldiers across the Rhine. On the 24th, the General Command abandoned the attack on the Arnhem Bridge and formed a defensive line at Nijmegen. The retreat of the British troops did not begin until the 25th. By the morning of the 26th, the British had withdrawn only 2,398 of the 10,600 men at the time of the drop.

On 27-29 September, the British advanced to the south bank of the Lower Rhine, but were forced to go on the defensive and failed to capture the landing ground on the north bank. In addition, the 1st Canadian Army's offensive northwest of Antwerp was slow to begin the campaign, and the Canadian army did not advance to the mouth of the Scheldt River until late September. By this time, Operation Market Garden had failed.

Until Limer commanded Germany to launch a war of encirclement and annihilation, the Rhine remained an impenetrable barrier between the Allies and the German mainland. One of the reasons for the failure of Operation Market Garden was the failure of the Allies to notice the Driel crossing on the lower Rhine, which could help Allied paratrooper units to avoid the two armored divisions of the German bridge. In order to quickly cross the Rhine, attack the Germans, and perhaps the operation will be successful.

Due to the prolongation of the battle line, the advance of the armored forces was stagnant, and the supply of the Allied forces had to be reduced again and again. The 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Division held out on the front line for more than two months and could not be withdrawn, and they suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in the 10-day "market" operation. On September 27, 1941, after 10 days of hard fighting, the Allies had to admit the complete failure of Operation Market-Garden.

In this combat operation, the Germans suffered only 3,300 casualties. The Allies lost more than 17,000 men. Thereinto. The U.S. 82nd Airborne Division suffered 3,400 casualties, and the 101st Airborne Division suffered 3,800 casualties. The British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish Paratrooper Brigade, which were at the forefront of the assault and were responsible for the capture of the Arnhem Bridge, suffered even more heavy losses without any assistance.

Of the 1,000 airborne personnel of the Polish paratrooper brigade, nearly 700 were killed or wounded. The 1st Airborne Division suffered nearly 7,000 casualties and prisoners, and less than 2,000 managed to break through from the German tanks. One of the division's field commanders lamented the Arnhem Bridge, which they would never reach: "That bridge is too far away for us!" "After the end of this battle. The 101st and 82nd Divisions of the U.S. Army never conducted airborne operations in World War II. Operation "Market Garden" thus became the swan song of the large-scale airborne operations of the elite airborne forces of the US military in World War II.

The battle lasted 9 days. After the Allies paid a heavy price. On a frontage 200 kilometers wide, it advanced 45-90 kilometers in depth. However, the Germans regained control of Arnhem, so the operation did not achieve its ultimate goal. The bridges in Arnhem are known as the "bridges from afar". One thing to believe in this is that in war there are never heroes

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The battle of the "Market Garden" in the eyes of the Germans. One of the armoured divisions was the 107th Panzer Division, commanded by Colonel Tsaien, which received a total of fifty-three new Leopard tanks and twenty-two No. 4 assault guns, all the grenadiers and stormtroopers marched in armored personnel carriers, and the whole division was equipped with about two hundred and thirty armored vehicles of various types [vehicles were equipped with flamethrowers or machine guns, mortars and seventy-five mm cannons], all in all, the division had great mobility and unparalleled firepower!

The 107th Division was originally a German reserve armored force, Li Mo gave an order, they were hurriedly sent to the front line before the training was over, and the Leopard tank turret had not even had time to spray the number, the 107th Division was originally ordered to be transferred to the Eastern Front instead of the Western Front, but at that time, Li Mo's Western Front lured the enemy deep into the Western Front, and they were transferred to the Western Front because of the strategic needs of gathering and annihilation.

Just in time for Operation Market Garden, on Monday, September 18, seventeen long military trains stopped at the Vienero station, and Colonel Tsaien stepped out of the train to look around, the whole station was empty, and the surroundings were very quiet. There was a routine air raid that day, and all the station employees stayed at home and did not go to work. He had to rush to the headquarters of the army group, where he met General Weissman from the general staff of the army group.

He promised that the 107th Division would be supplied with sufficient fuel and would be thrown into battle as a unit, rather than one by one, and that was exactly what Cai En insisted on. His insistence was not unreasonable, because the situation in the area near Edthofen was already very dangerous, and his division was the rescuer, because the Maginot Line and the Ardennes Forest, where Limer concentrated most of his forces, the German army in the Netherlands had less than one division, and all of them were World War II troops.

However, it took a long time for the equipment to be unloaded, and the 86th Army had to wait until all the equipment of his division was unloaded.

However, shortly after he spoke with Weisman, the commander of the Eighty-sixth Army, General Field, called and ordered him to advance "immediately" towards Edthofen, and Tsaien was furious with this stupid order, but there was nothing he could do, only a few Leopards and half-tracks were unloaded, and if he advanced rashly now, his division would be eaten by the enemy little by little, and he decided to ignore it for the time being and continue to wait for the equipment to be unloaded.

At the same time, due to the constant harassment of Allied aircraft, the work of unloading the equipment was intermittent and did not go well. Later in the evening, Weisman personally called Zeon and ordered him to advance on Edthofen "immediately" and that there was no room for bargaining. Zein had no choice but to execute. The target is a town named San,

Since the road to Nijmegen passes right on the right side of the city, and the bridge across the Wilhelmina Canal is the key, the order is simple: take and hold the city! In the Helmond area, the 21st Parachute Battalion, commanded by Hevis, was to be reinforced to the division.

In the early hours of the morning, the engines of the Leopard tank, the No. 4 assault gun and the half-track began to roar, and Tsai set off with his troops, only part of the division had so far been ready for battle, and the rest of the equipment was still being unloaded.

It was a peaceful morning, with a thin layer of mist in the air, and the countryside was stunning: scattered farmhouses dotted the endless fields and pastures, and birds singing in the woods. The war looks so far away from here, what a stark contrast! But soon the people were stunned by the loud sound of engines, and the Germans came.

The difference was that this time the Germans did not retreat to Germany on stolen bicycles or livestock, but marched in the opposite direction - Edthofen - to see what they were equipped with: tanks, rocket launchers and artillery! After a brief stop at the 107th Division in Helmond, the reinforced paratroopers climbed into tanks and marched with the 107th Division, and in the afternoon, the Germans reached Nuenen (to be continued......

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