The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
New Drive Launched
On German. Homeland
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were throwing thousands of per
ana all available armor and ma
terlal into an about effort to stem
the threat to the Rhine and EN-
phasized that there is no minimiz
irg the Importance of this battle
On it rests the whole success Of
the campaign, 1.-The Germans fore
ed powerful wedge into the mar
row supply corridor up from Find
hoven for "a hours, this dispatch
said, and succeeded in temporarily
isolating the northern spearhead Of
1t. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey's
Second Army by cutting the road
between st. Oedenrode and Veghel
But British armor, supporting the
airborne troops, was slowly fore.
ing the Germans back and field
commanders said they expected
highway conveys to resume traffic
some time today.
At least three times German ar.
mored and infantry attacks had
severed the thin Allied supply line
between Eindhoven and Nijmegen,
the vital artery along which re.
Inducements were being showed to.
ward Anthem. AS many times Brit.
lsh tanks and self-propelled guns
had smashed the Nazis back and
cleared the highway.
In their determined effort to halt
this Allied trust toward Germany
the Nazis struck with their hoard
ed reserve OF fighter planes. A
single flight of 100 Focke-Wuif fight
ers attacked British forces near
Nijmegen, and another IS swept
down on tn beseiged airborne
Tommies at Anthem. Sixteen Of
the attacking Nazis at Nijemgen
were shot down by Raj Spitfires
and Typhoons.
The last official announcement
from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
headquarters before the news cen.
sorship was imposed said that am.
phibious trucks and assault boats
OF the British Second Army were
ferrying a small quantity of rein.
forcements and supplies across the
quarter-mile wide Rhine to the bit
terly-resisting force at Anthem.
The German DNB broadcast
said the last British skytroops sur.
rendered in an area little more
than a quarter-mile square west OF
Anthem. 1.-THE prisoners still were
in possession of their arms of all
kinds, which fell into German
hands," the broadcast said. 'They
were over-fatigued, exhausted and
starved"
(The broadcast, recorded by the
Associated Press, said that efforts
to supply the little force by air
were frustrated by German anti
aircraft defenses, which it claimed
shot down "a heavy Allied trans
port planes.)
A cold autumn rain swelled the
Rhine torrent between the
isolated force and its would-be res
cuers. The seasons first SHOWS,
which whitened the slopes of the
Jura mountain near the southern
end of the long front along the
Reich frontier, found the opposing
armies all but stalemated.
American doughboys of thu First,
Third and Seventh armies who had
been shivering in their light uni
forms were being issued winter
clothing - long underwear, extra
blankets and overcoats. Sleeping
bags were reported on the way to
cut the chill of frosty nights and
The great offensive to
crush Hitler was going into the
winter.
Along front of roughly $50 miles
from north of Aachen in Germany
to south of Belfort near the Swiss
frontier the only signs of life today
were desultory artillery duels and
minor German counterattacks
Near Dieuze, Is miles northeast
Of Nancy, six German tank and in
fantry attacks were stopped yes
terday, and 1t. Gen. George S.
Patton's Third army gained some
ground northeast and southeast Of
Nancy.
Nazi defenses against the Ameri-
cans had stiffened everywhere.
Above Aachen the Nazis herded
several thousand non-German ref
ugees out into no-man's-land and
toward the American lines, appa-
rently to be rid of the burden of
feeding them.
In a continuing onslaught against
the enemy's supply routes to the
line, LOO American Fly
ing Fortresses and Liberators pour
ed nearly $500 tons Of bombs on
freight yards at Hamm and Osna-
oruck and on unspecified targets
at Bremen.
A severe blow was struck at the
Germans service of supply in Hol-
and when food dump contain
ng 100000 rations, including g.
700 tons of meat, was captured by
American and British troops near
The little town of Oss, Is miles
southwest of Nijmegen.
The huge dump was believed to
have been intended to supply all
Nazi troops in the Netherlands for