The story
The HQ settles in ZETTEN. The MMG Company relieves the C and D companies of the 3rd Battalion. The 1st Battalion relieves the Ross Force. The 7 LAA relieved the 1st Battalion in LEEUWEN. During the night, the 1st Battalion sends a patrol to DE TEMPEL and occupies this position with D Company. On the morning, the A Company occupies NIEUWLAND. The 3rd Battalion executes 2 patrols towards OPHEUSDEN. On the other side of the Rhine, the troops discover an apocalyptic landscape which testifies to the extreme violence of the combat delivered between German and the allied airborne troops during the battle of ARNHEIM. All is devastated there, without life. Bodies and cattle exhale a nauseous odour there. It is in this conditions that, in the face of the west, the 1st Battalion, in the south, its left supported on the WALL, and the 3rd Battalion, to north, will start their progression to take again the ground lost by the allies. Making profitable the darkness, the first patrols leave as a preliminary to recognize the No man' s land particularly lugubrious. Follow them, the companies will take possession of the localities and the strategic points left by the enemy. The 1st Battalion occupies, one after the other, DODEWAARD, DE TEMPEL and, at dawn NIEUWELAND.
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