VIII Corps held ground to the east of the highway and with the Grenadier Guards operating to the west of it, the road was never again cut in significant strength.
Nevertheless, the Germans had not gone away and still took every opportunity to raid and disrupt Allied traffic on the road...
Ref: Battleground Europe - Operation Market Garden
Hell’s Highway - By Tim Saunders
Thanks to the earlier removal of Kampfgruppe Walther, an alternative route to the east was developed, which worked around the German cut to the road at Koevering.
It was not straight forward however and...
Hell’s Highway Reopened – 26 September 1944
By the following morning the Germans had largely withdrawn to the west.
C Battery, 377 Parachute Field Artillery’s diary records:
‘26 Sept – Weather is very bad with lots of rain falling. “Hell’s Highway” still cut but an attack is scheduled for...
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