Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Holland'44 - 3Q20 - Turns 14 to 17

After this session, one more day remains.  It is very close, but the pressure is all on the Allies to take more VP locations and get across the Lower Rhine and not lose any more units.

 During the night of the 21/22 September 
the Germans have made an incursion on the Allies' left.

 The Germans look like they are also getting ready to attack on the Allied right flank.

 The Germans are busy trying to constrain the Allied presence on the Betuwe.

 The Germans are now threatening both flanks of the highway.

 While the Germans are still managing to restrain the Betuwe bridgehead,
the Allies have now isolated Nijmegen.

 The German flank incursions seem to have stalled.

 The fighting rages on in the Betuwe.
The Allies have brought up more engineers to ferry over their troops.
In addition the Polish paratroops have arrived,
along with other US paras, freshly dropped after a bit of a delay.

 The Germans are now on the defensive in the Betuwe.
They have blown the railroad bridge west of Arnhem.

 The Allies are working hard to stop the German flank attacks.

 The night of 22/23 September and the German defenders of Nijmegen refuse to surrender.
What's the German for "nuts!"
Lower Rhine defences look at little sparse now that the Allies have been able to finally push the Germans back in the Betuwe.

There might still be some fight in the German counterattacks on the flanks...

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