RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

1. Established and maintained a defensive position along an MLR over twelve thousand yards in length, with enemy on three sides of the position.

2. Seized Bridge #10 and prevented its destruction.

3. Destroyed the apparatus for the demolition of the NIJMEGEN BRIDGE across the WAAL RIVER, thus making possible the successful completion of the major Division mission.

4. Seized, occupied, organized and defended the BERG EN DAL- KAMP HILL mass, terrain which controls the GROESBEEK-NIJMEGEN area.

5. Cut Highway K, preventing movement of enemy reserves or escape of enemy along this important international route.

6. Withstood and repulsed the major enemy efforts at WYLER and at BEEK to penetrate the Division position and isolate the units to the north.

7. Captured 483 prisoners.

8. Sustained casualties as follows:

Killed in Action:        139
Wounded in Action: 479
Missing in Action:      78
Captured:                 None

9. Was first Allied Airborne unit to operate tactically in GERMANY.


10. Captured first prisoners of war in GERMANY to be secured by Allied Airborne Troops.

PERSONNEL OF 508TH COMBAT TEAM

Colonel Roy E. Lindquist C.O. 508 Prcht Inf
Lt. Col. T.J.B. Shanley Ex. O. 508 Prcht Inf
Lt. Col. Shields Warren, Jr. C.O. 1st Bn, 508 P I
Major Otho E. Holmes C.O. 2nd Bn, 508 P I
Lt. Col. Louis G. Mendez, Jr. C.O. 3rd Bn, 508 P I
Lt. Col. James C. Todd C.O. 319 F.A. Bn
1st Lt. Charles W. Chaplinski C.O. Co. D, 307 Engr Bn
1st Lt. John C. Cliff C.O. Btry B, 80 AA Bn