The only full-scale fighting was in The Netherlands, where the Germans were in orderly retreat northward across the Maas. A new attack against Arnhem was mounted.

While the Allied armies on the western front waited for Antwerp to open up, there could be no general push. So, while U.S. troops, from Belgium south, scrapped fiercely in local actions and conserved their ammunition, the only full-scale fighting was in The Netherlands, where the Germans were in orderly…