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The next photo titled “Wrath of the Red Devils” depicts an artist’s conception of the First battalion’s attack to clear the drop zone of Germans.
The first man in the painting is 1st Sgt. Leonard Funk, Co C. He led the assault and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
The second man was awarded the Silver Star medal and the other two men received Bronze Star medals. John Hardie, one of the men depicted in the painting, provided James Dietz, the artist, with technical advice and and descriptions of the scene and paratroopers shown in the painting. 
Wrath of the Red Devils”
by James Dietz
That night, the First Battalion was ordered to seize and organize Tuefel Berg (Devil's Hill), overlooking the Wyler Meer-Beek road - the international boundary between Germany and Holland. Devils Hill was the highest landmass in the Nijmegen area.
After a fierce fight in which 17 men were killed. Company A, reinforced with a Hq1 machine-gun section, secured Devil's Hill. By nightfall Hq1 light machineguns were in position on the crest of the hill.
The Germans counterattacked several times during the night but in ferocious hole-to-hole fighting they were pushed back down the hill. | 
