Letters From the Front

Letters from friends mean much to all of us. Some people have a knack for writing interesting letters. The following quotations are from a letter from a man in the service. You may be interested in some of the things he writes:

“As we near our rendevous with destiny many of us especially we older ones often get together in informal yet searching gab-fests and bull sessions.

“What we’re fighting for can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. But to us of the Combat Team, though we may express it in many ways, we are fighting for victory for our United States and the United Nations; we are fighting to assure ourselves, our loved ones, and our posterity the right to live in these United States in peace, security and dignity. We are fighting to justify the faith and confidence which other Americans have in us, a faith which enabled them to withstand ostracism, criticism, and ridicule, and sometimes even threats of violence.

Landings “Going Well.”

Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroops land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army.

Gen. Eisenhower announced that the air-borne landings in Holland were “going well” in this latest blow, a blow which might break the back of German resistance strained by the piling up demands of many fronts.

“One of the greatest air-borne operations in military history,” as it was described by Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, commander of the 1st Air Army, was said by the Germans to be centered at Nijmegen, only about 3 miles from the Dutch-German border and 12 miles northwest of Kleve, where the Siegfried Line is reported to end.

Other landings were reported by the enemy radio at Arnhem, 10 miles north of Nijmegen, where a bridge head would have been established across the famous water barriers of Holland—the Waal River and the Neder Ryn (Rhine).