The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 September 1944 — Page 4

THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTIE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1944.

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Three Survivors of Arnhem Fighting Tell Vivid Story of Valiant Stand

AIRBORNE HEADQUARTERS. I i Sept. 24 ( Delayed) I UP) Three i j survivors of a heroic little band of j : British parachutists. surrounded 1 I while trying to hold the north end i of the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine. | i told tonight of resisting German ! flames, tanks and mortars for three ' I days and nights .vhile with bayonets i they drove off repeated Nazi at- ; | tempts to blow up the structure. j The band, reduced to 45 men, in- J ! eluding ;i5 wounded, finally was I overwhelmed by the waves of German attacks, leaving four to care | | for the wounded, six attempted to j j escape, they were captured and re- j I moved toward Germany but they j 1 managed to escap . Three, their tunics battle—stained, j torn and muddy, reached Allied lints j I today. ! i . “It was a tough go at the Arnhem I bridge" one of the survivors, littl'o, Lancashire officer Lieutenant Den-; : nis Simpson, said. “We made a perfect drop on the 1 outskirts of Arnhem and my section I moved off to its objective- the bridge | over the lower Rhine in the heart of 1 the town. “In the darkness we passed I through Oosterbeek and reach* d Arnhem without any real opposition. | Crouching through the streets, we , j reached houses at the northern end of th'e bridge, our mission was to i occupy them. We got into a school building underneath the approach to ; the bridge, the first storeAvks above j the bridge level, others occupied othvr buildings. “That first night we made a j ( charge against a pill box guarding j the bridge and blew up an ammuni- j tion dump inside, twenty Germans j ran up with their hands up. “We pulled bark again and began j fortifying the school house, by now | the Germans had gathered force and i were attacking the next house with tanks, firing from .'10 yards, they set fire to houses hoping the wind would

carry the flames to the school house, that failed. “About mid-day a convoy of German Lorries came over the bridge. We opened up killing the men riding them, the Lorries caught fire, that night the men started firing mortars at us. "Tuesday two mark III tanks appeared and began furious firing which c ontinued most of the day, one of our men crept across the road underfire and dropped a bomb from a house top on a tank, disabling it. “That ■■ veiling the Germans again tried to bum us out but we extinguished the fire, that night Tiger tanks roamed about shelling the school house until it was riddled like a sieve. “Tb, next day two Tigers started hammering away again, from our second floor we could see the Germans working on the bridge and we realized they were putting in a demolition charge, we rushed out with fixed bayonets through enemy fire, cleared the Germans from the ! bridge and removed the charge, then the Germans counter-attacked and we withdrew to the houses "Wo organized another bayonet charge, this time we suffered heavy casualties but all the charges were removed. Thv enemy now was closing in. they set fire to the school and the building began to fall in, we had 21 wounded and tiled to get out with them, there wv>re now 45 of us. “We got as far as the next house when the Germans raked us and pinned us down, we had more casualtics, thy wounded now numbered 35, wo decided to leave four men with them and give the others a chance to escape. "But as we got char of the houses the Germans closed in and forced the last six to surrender’’ A Corporal, Charles Weir, added: “They placed us in a house under guard but wv saw a chance to escape and took it.’’

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Envoy to Belgium

“I’M FOR DEWEY" reads the sign dangling from Fluffy's collar as h« strolls a Pittsburgh. Pa., avenue with his master, George W.‘Nicola. (I ntnr national)

CHARLES SAWYER, above, former Democratic national committeeman from Ohio, has been selected by President Roosevelt as the U. S. ambassador to the newly-liber-ated Belgium. Sawyer, a Cincinnati, O., lawyer, has been in politics since 1911 and was lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1933 and 1933. Senate approval is necessary, (International)

H!S DISGUISE DIDN’T HELP HIM

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THIS GERMAN PRISONER donned civilian clothes and attached a Red Cross band to his coat sleeve for a disguise as he went about his sniping. However, it is evident it didn’t work, for he is shown being marched under guard of an American soldier down the Adolf Hitler platz after Yank trodps had crossed the Moselle in the Thionville. France, vicinity. (International)

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AMERICAN INFANTRYMEN slush through mud to cross the Moselle river into Germany via a pontoon bridge thrown up by Army engineers. A heavy smoke screen gives cover U> the Yanks and their unmunitlon trucks for the crossing. ' T Haiantional)

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I ; • • • •* I : : o'war A onH^!?r»° s f nn he 20 000 Ge Z h ’ ans who surrendered and now await transportation to a prison 6 ' jfoops surrendered toU. s'Ninth Army f^s. 1 ArmyT^?^’-^ ^llrZlUilL To Appear at High School October 21