Thread by @18airbornecorps

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Friday, September 22, 1944

D+5

The landing of the @82ndABNDiv’s 325 Glider Infantry Regiment, scheduled to land near Overasselt on Sep 19th, was postponed, for the fourth time, due to bad weather in England (couldn’t take off)

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More of the 30 Corps tanks reached Nijmegen, allowing for reinforcement of defenses along 82d held ground. One British recce troop managed to reach the Poles at Driel. A double axis advance by two battalions, met heavy resistance.

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The German troops were still attacking The Corridor around Nijmegen, but they had thus far been unsuccessful in cutting The Corridor or completely stopping the American advance toward Arnhem.

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Having opened The Corridor and cleared the route of enemy troops at Eindhoven and Son, the @101stAASLTDIV set up positions at St Oedenrode and Veghel. The area between the two towns was under near-constant pressure from German counterattacks.

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The German 59 Infanteriedivision Germans attacks the Corridor from the west. and the east (KAMPFGRUPPE Walther attacks from the east towards the highway bridge over the Zuid-Willemsvaart Canal at Veghel.

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All day: The Germans kept mounting attacks against the 101st positions at Eindhoven, Son, St. Oedenrode, and Veghel. It was a constant back and forth: the Germans would attack, cut The Corridor, then the Screaming Eagles would push them back.

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~ 11:30 AM - whilst the column of the Wehrmacht leading 69 Infanterie Bridage (50 Infanterie-Division) was passing through, heavy shelling of Veghel and the road to Uden commenced and all traffic stopped.

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~ 2PM, Wehrmacht 59 Infanterie-Division & Kampfgruppe Walther attack Veghel from all sides, but an improvised Allied effort - US airborne troops, UK tank, anti-tank, anti-aircraft and artillery fire and air support - in close co-operation, eventually stops the attacks.

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~ 2:35 PM: 30 CORPS promised the 101st the support of tanks and infantry of Grenadier and Coldstream Guards Group, which were directed south along the Corridor.

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Private 1st Class David Kenyon Webster of the 506th Easy Company (played by Eion Bailey in “Band of Brothers”), said of the rain of artillery at Veghel: “It was a very depressing atmosphere listening to the civilians moan, shriek, sing hymns, and say their prayers.”

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Webster (pictured) also told of his time in a foxhole with Private Donald Wiseman: “Every time we heard a shell come over, we closed out eyes and put our heads between our legs. Every time the shells went off, we looked up and grinned at each other.”

FINAL:

By day’s end: still no reinforcement to the British paras in Arnhem.