The story
4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment of the British 49th Division, attached to the Canadian Army, liberated Arnhem in the Netherlands, scene of the Market-Garden battle of the previous year. Attacking the town in flanking movement from the east across the River Ijssel rather than the Rhine, the fighting was no less bitter, but the Lincolns achieved their objective and took 234 prisoners at a cost of five men killed and 49 wounded. Elsewhere in the Netherlands, Allied troops captured Assen, Diepenveen, and Olst. CPC,
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