History of the 508th Parachute Infantry by William G. Lord II

Author:William G. Lord II [Lord, William G. II]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, United States, Europe, General, Germany, Special Forces
ISBN: 9781789125344
Google: joqbDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-12-01T03:25:05+00:00

On the northern flank I Company reached its objective, the brick kilns at Erlekom within the hour. At one point the entire company was pinned down on the flat terrain by enemy automatic weapons firing from a ditch in front of the kilns. The tanks came up and raked the ditch with their 76mm guns, enabling I Company to take the objective, H Company met no resistance in taking its objective, the brick kilns at Erlekom within the sector.

Company G, on the right, reached its objective, Thorensche Molen in the face of heavy resistance, but was forced to withdraw by the accurate enemy artillery. Four times during the 23rd and 24th G Company attacked and reached its goal, but each time found the objective untenable, as the area was extremely open and the men were fighting under the very eyes of enemy observers. Finally they secured positions 600 yards to the north at Wercheren Lake and covered the flats with fire. A tank from the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry was destroyed in the middle of the road near Thorensche Molen on the first attack, denying further use of the road to the rest of the tanks. The cause of the repeated attacks on this position was to secure the northeast end of the dike that ran from the base of Devil’s Hill to Thorensche Molen. If this dike could be captured, it would offer cover to its defenders and would afford a continuous line of defense from below the DZ to the banks of the Waal east of Nijmegen.

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