European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Outnumbered British soldiers holding off germans near embattled Bridge at arnhem movie version of the Battle from a Bridge too 541 of Tom rom far from the fury of War arnhem Bridge tra never Hen ully but sum the Louil at Allied casualties Muu ind Marti than Gorman hisses remain kor Groom and Many of the other Khilch people who remember the resurgence of interest in the operation cured flrs4 by the Book and now by he brings Back he horrors of the but also badly needed Revenue from a surge in Tom 1st agencies in have begun a Campaign extolling the thrills of Raveling ailing the mule the Vilics took to visit the various Bailie memorials and Mili tary graveyards in and around ahem and a Market Garden with a map of the mute along Wilh pictures and information about the Bat Les u being distributed All Over the world by the nether lands National tourist Jan the Jovial owner of a specially store aimed at the tourist buying Public in Arne end was Only live years old during the Battle Tor the he remembers hardly anything about he righting except for a deep Gash he received on the Bottom of the foot from shattered this movie has made us important maybe Tike am Busch said As be dusted a line of souvenirs that went on Sale the Day the movie opened in arnhem he remembered the Days when the most of the tourists this Section of Holland received were veterans of the War who would come bark to refresh the memory of those terrible tourists have invaded the Rugin since release of the Book and he but perhaps without us much fanfare As Montgomery Sammy Winchester of stopped outside the theater where the movie was playing and asked his wife Dorothy if they should step inside and watch Ali tall my dad say if i saw the movie Here at the actual place it occurred hell be As jealous As Dorothy said As she led her husband through the some visitors bypass the the movie and the brochures just to walk across the Bridge that shakes under the weight of Large Tom lincolns camera Lens tried to capture an Angle of the Bridge never before he straddled a rail to shod up at the girders and nearly fell into the his father was part of the american 101st airborne division thai landed near Eindhoven to secure the first part of corridor leading to Ive been travelling for six Days now taking pictures of All these different places along the Market Garden route so i can give it to my father As a Lincoln Marcus Lincoln want Able to walk away from the Battle after having been badly wounded by shrapnel piercing both of i to this Day he has a bad but Doest really resent having been in he Calls the opera Tion one of the Best of the the collection of photographs will be placed in an album lincolns wife dad has got a dreadful fear of flying Ever since the War and will never again get on a but he always talks about the big operation and 1 think he will appreciate the Lincoln the route inc younger Lincoln followed this summer from Eindhoven to arnhem la filled with Large open Pas Small and an occasional that today is Only blocked by an occasional tractor finding pleasure in holding Back a Stream of angry banners Rake Hay into bundles in the same places where paratroopers dropped by the thousand unsure of exactly where the enemy was hidden in Many places the Road Narrows to two lanes of traffic and the thought of tanks storming Down these Liny slabs of Roadway is hard to but just Ai the Countryside to Peak Only the language of Iran deity and the cutlet of Eastern Holland jump onto us landscape Aad scream rubble that the War left in a Megen and ahem has been replaced by High Rise apartments and shopping faces on the Street express Progress and but there remain those obvious and hidden reminders of Market Carsen throughout the signs Point to graveyards dotting the Countryside where silence is not demanded but subconsciously in War memorials grow out of Concrete and pro claim the valor of those who fell to save the even on the Bridge where Montgomery dreams of Conquest were a memorial stands in respect u the bravery of he Allied yet for men like Henri who watch barges pass slowly through the shadows o the memorials remain As cold As the tombstones on the Graves of the Vic Tims of operation Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1977