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The rain had not stopped for eleven days. It fell in a gray, weeping sheet over the Dutch countryside, turning the shattered roads into canals of mud and muck. For Private First Class William "Billy" Rourke of the 101st Airborne, the rain was just another enemy—one without a face, one that rotted your boots, your rations, and your hope.

What happened next was not strategy. It was fury. The squad crawled through the ditch until they were parallel with the lead tank. Jake pulled the pin on a fragmentation grenade, waited two beats, and lobbed it into the tank’s open commander’s hatch. The explosion was muffled, but the tank lurched to a stop, smoke pouring from every seam.

“Not yet,” Jake said. “We’re the Screaming Eagles. We don’t leave until the job’s done. And neither does Eddie. We carry him home—all of them. That’s what brothers do.”

The mission was simple: hold the corridor. Keep the road open so British tanks could roll up to Arnhem. But simple was a lie war told you so you’d keep moving. Brothers In Arms- Hell-s Highway

“They’re coming,” Billy said, his throat dry.

“Hell’s Highway,” Billy muttered. “They can have it.”

“Billy,” Jake whispered, not looking at him. His eyes were fixed on the tree line fifty yards away, where SS Panzergrenadiers had dug in. “You hear that?” The rain had not stopped for eleven days

Billy listened. Above the drumming rain, there was a low, mechanical growl. Tanks. German tanks. The rumble grew until the ground trembled.

“Eddie!” Billy screamed.

They ran, boots slipping in the slop, as machine-gun fire stitched the ground behind them. Billy dove headfirst into the drainage ditch, landing hard on his shoulder. Jake landed next to him, then Private Donnelly, then Corporal Hayes. But the kid—Private First Class Eddie Raynor, just eighteen, from Kansas—was still in the open. What happened next was not strategy

The Panzergrenadiers behind it dismounted, fanning out into the mud. And then it was close work—rifle butts, bayonets, the sharp crack of pistols fired into rain-slicked helmets. Billy shot a German soldier no older than Eddie. The man fell with a surprised look, as if he’d just realized he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“You okay?” Jake asked.

“Fall back to the ditch!” Jake shouted.

“He’s gone, Billy. He’s gone.”