Polish troops liberate key Dutch towns.

Polish troops liberate key Dutch towns. In a fast-moving sweep from the Belgian border, Polish troops of the 21st Army Group, commanded by British Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, liberated the industrial center of Breda. Unable to withstand the combined assault of the U.S., British, Canadian and Polish forces, the Nazis were forced to take refuge behind the Maas, natural defense line guarding the Reich. A polish dispatch rider who has a happy girl of liberated Breda as passenger on his motorcycle, pauses in his journey through the Dutch city to return the greetings of the townspeople, freed from German control October 29, 1944. Ignoring danger, residents of Breda, thronged the streets to welcome the Polish armored troops.