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- Sept. 19th, 1944:
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- We have just received word that the 2nd Para Battalion of the 1st Para division is
- still holding out in Arnhem. However, the Germans still hold Nijmegen and the
- bridge over the Waal River. the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division has been unable to
- secure this crucial bridge. due to heavy German resistance. Your orders are to clear
- the town and to capture the bridge before the Germans blow it up. Failure could
- mean heavy losses for the trapped British paratroopers in Arnhem.
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