The Lower Rhine at war. February - March 1945

A new website containing a collection of film footage from the final months of the Second World War is now available.

More than 60 video clips show the advance of the Allied forces on the Lower Rhine. The focus is on Operations Veritable, Blockbuster and Varsity in February and March 1945.

The site can be reached at:
sites.google.com/view/ndrh1945-en

Of course any reactions are welcome.
Thanks.

 

Nice work!

 

All together on one website, great work.

About the question Major Balfour, i would say it is a doppelganger he looks like him. But i would say the Cap badge is wrong.
Good moment for a new post.

Major Balfour Cap Badge Question

 

Great idea, Bedee! Must be some sort of mind reading. That would have been my next post. I will post some of my thoughts later on.

 

Excellent and thanks for sharing these excellent films. They have helped me to understand and visualise the context for Operation "HEATHER" within the overall Operation "VERITABLE" campaign.

 

Thank you very much for the positive feedback Tom.
Unfortunately this is rather rare these days. Cheers.

 

Help wanted

A new video clip has been added to my website ndrh1945. Unfortunately, the location has not yet been identified. Since a COLFAX board can be seen, it's possibly somewhere in the XVI Corps area (Issum, Alpen, Sevelen, Kamp-Lintfort ...).

Any help is welcome ...

 

In a XVI booklet I found a picture showing another view, using the following caption: "... trucked forward to the vicinity of Lintfort, Germany".




How gigantic these LCM's were can be seen in another picture. In a book it was mentioned that even a house had to be demolished in order to allow passage via the only available road. This seems quite credible.

 

NAVY Action Report Rhine River Crossing:

 

Interesting, that yet another German word exists in the English language:
Doppelgänger.

Stefan.

 

lots and lots: Liste deutscher Wörter im Englischen – Wikipedia

 

Amazing!
So, the Brits are trilingual: English - French - German?
At least in Guernsey.
Stefan.

 

Hi Ometei.
I just happened to see it. I was actually looking for something else. It could be the area around Friedrich-Heinrich. The mining settlement?
At least I think the houses look a little similar.
Source: Engineer Operations in the Rhine Crossing. Ninth US Army.
I think the book is now available online. Without the maps. Where did I save the link? Probably in an email about “Battles in Rheinberg.” Then it's probably been deleted.

Greetings

 

Good morning.
I found the links after all. However, the maps in the attachment can actually be found everywhere on the internet.
My original probably belonged to a Colonel Milling? It's hard to decipher. It resembles my terrible handwriting. LOL


Engineer Operations in The Rhine Crossing, Ninth US Army, 1945, Part 1 | PDF

Engineer Operations in The Rhine Crossing, Ninth US Army, 1945, Part 2 | PDF | Military

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