Day 7 Operation Market Garden

Day 7: Saturday, 23 September

The Germans had figured out what the Poles were attempting to do, and they spent the rest of the day trying to cut off the British in their northern bridgehead from the riverside. The British managed to hold on, and both sides suffered heavy losses. The Germans also attacked the Poles on the south side in order to tie them down, but several tanks arrived from XXX Corps and they were beaten off. Boats and engineers from the Canadian army also arrived that day, and another river crossing that night landed another 150 troops of the Polish 3rd Parachute Battalion on the northern bank of the Rhine.

To the south several more German attacks from their position astride the road were stopped, but the road was still cut. XXX Corps then sent a unit of the Guards Armoured Division 19 km (12 miles) south and re-took the road. The rest of the force to the north continued to wait for infantry to move up, still only a few kilometers south of Arnhem.