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Unlikely ever to succeed, the operation merely sucked German forces further west into the noose of an encirclement then forming in the Argentan-Falaise area; this ensured that the Westfieer would suffer a catastrophic strategic defeat in Normandy during August 1944. (US Army) 37 On 1 August, meanwhile, Bradley's 12th US Army Group became operational and assumed command of the First Army and General George Patton's new Third Army. American forces were now able to conduct the fast-paced mobile war for which the peacetime army had trained.
Meanwhile, hastily mobilized garrison forces, stiffened by the remnants of the crack II SS Panzer Corps and reinforced with King Tiger tanks, steadily wore down the heroic resistance offered by Colonel Frost's paratroopers at Arnhem bridge, while simultaneously containing the rest of the 1st Airborne Division in the Oosterbeek perimeter to the west of Arnhem. 44 Essential Histories • The Second World War (6) After five days' resistance, and without sign of relief by Horrocks' forces, the Germans overran Frost's forces at the bridge.
While officially still forbidding any withdrawals, Hitler now realized that the Westheer could not hold the Allies west of the Rhine. Consequently, he ordered that any commander who demolished a Rhine 53 bridge too early - thus preventing retreating German forces from crossing - or who allowed a bridge to fall into enemy hands would be shot. This contradictory order would cause the Germans untold problems on 7 March at Remagen. Finally, on 23 February, the Americans commenced Grenade across the now subsiding River Roer.
