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Dug in on the edge of the woods. From the Knapheide vicinity of DZ N, toward which the D-plus-1 glider landings had been moved via smoke signals thanks to the quick thinking of 93d Glider Officer Henry C. Hobbs and Capt. Nelson, CO of Battery A, 80th Anti-Tank Bn, 82nd Airborne, after LZ N, the intended landing zone, was taken over by Germans. The glider pilots shown here were at this point closer to the Reichswald in Germany--not much more than one mile away--than they were to Groesbeek, during the initial phase of the airborne invasion of Holland. |
