When flak units started to arrive I put them in defense of all of the bridges and ferries and sealed the fate of 1st Airborne who were now trapped. I reinforced the railroad bridge with the Panther Coy and the Tiger coy, ensuring no units would be able to push across open ground and take the bridge.
Arnhem was only protected by three companies until the arrival of 2nd SS but the British were never able to penetrate into Arnhem in significant force. I took the 9th Recon and 10th SS and began building my defence of Elden. I basically had the remainder of my Hvy Flak posted all along the main road and a well entrencehed line of defence centered on Elden awaiting the arrival of the 30th Corps. The entrenched hvy flak was an unwelcome surprise for the Irish Guards who lost eight units of motorized forces just to get past the first flak battalions.
30th Corps tried to push right along the roads east but the reinforcement tigers and engineers were waiting for them and I was able to thwart their thrust along the water from the northeast with my armor and numerous airstrikes. The flak and armor were just too much to push through and Elden was never really in question of falling. 30th Corps was essentially crushed.
Of course I realize how difficult a situation it was for the 1st and 30th. The scattered multiple drops and large amounts of German reinforcements of tanks and heavy guns ensured their fate. Now I will have to try to equal this kind of result with British![;)]
