Corridor to the Rhine

Corridor to the Rhine. The Corridor, also called 
Hell's Highway, was the name that the Allies gave in 
September 1944 to the advance route that took them 
from the Belgian Kempen via Eindhoven and Nijmegen to 
Arnhem, and then to the IJsselmeer and the Ruhr area. 
The spearhead offensive, which the 2nd British Army unleashed 
on September 17, 1944, was accompanied by large-scale actions 
by paratroopers and airborne troops. Their task was to capture 
the bottlenecks in the route, mainly the bridges over rivers 
and canals, so that the ground army could advance quickly. 
This largest military operation was codenamed Market Garden.