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September 24: The situation in the British perimeter in Oosterbeek is becoming untenable

in Oosterbeek/September 24
A wounded soldier is taken to an emergency hospital near the Hartenstein hotel.

“It was a desperate, terrible day.” General Roy Urquhart drew this conclusion at the end of Sunday, September 24, about the situation in Oosterbeek. After more than a week of continuous fighting and continuous mortar bombardment of the British positions, the airborne troops were close to exhaustion. Because most supplies dropped by the RAF ended…

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September 24: A ceasefire in Oosterbeek to remove the wounded

in Oosterbeek/September 24
British wounded, walking on their way from Oosterbeek to the Elisabeth Gasthuis hospital in Arnhem.

The British also held out in Oosterbeek on Sunday, September 24. But the price the British paid for this was unprecedentedly high. As a result of the fighting and mortar shelling, approximately 200 British soldiers were killed every day and an estimated 400 soldiers were injured. The wounded could go to the nine emergency hospitals…

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The Allies decide to make a half-hearted crossing at the Westerbouwing, to the anger of general Sosabowski

in Oosterbeek/September 24
Polish general Stanislav Sosabowski arrives in Valburg.

After a few hours of sleep, Polish General Sosabowski was woken up on Sunday morning, September 24. Sosabowski had led the crossing of more than 150 Polish paratroopers to the British perimeter at Oosterbeek all night and had gone to bed around dawn. But at 10 o’clock in the morning he was woken up because…

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Report of the Valburg Conference

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General Sosabowski in Valburg on Sunday, September 24.

On Sunday, December 24, a meeting took place in Valburg between several British generals and the Polish general Stanislav Sosabowski. During the conference, Sosabowski was told that the British wanted to carry out a crossing with two battalions that night near the Westerbouwing. After the Battle of Arnhem, the Poles in general and General Sosabowski…

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Attack by the 4th Dorsets on the Westerbouwing in Oosterbeek ends in a fiasco

in Oosterbeek/September 24
The Westerbouwing, after the Battle of Arnhem.

In an attempt to relieve the besieged Airborne Division in Oosterbeek and expand the bridgehead on the north side of the Rhine, General Horrocks, the commander of XXX Corps, ordered a crossing at the Driel ferry on Sunday, September 24. The Westerbouwing was located on the north side of the Drielse veer; a steep hill…

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