Immediately air support is requested and P-38 's, armed with rockets and incendiaries shoot the castle to rubble. The losses on the American side are enormous, thirteen Sherman tanks are lost. In the evening Wemple pulls back his armed forces to the East of the railway line near Groeningen. The following days there are some American troop movements, but the activities remain limited to patrolling and warding off counterattacks.
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