 | Push to the Rhine , Germany. March 1945 Push to the Rhine , Germany. March 1945 British 2nd Army and Canadian operations as they move towards the River Rhine, Germany in March 1945. Cartonboy Grandad's was a Bofor gunner, whose Regiment was involved in operations around here. More films at www.britishpathe.com |
 | OPERATION VARSITY: AIRBORNE ASSAULT OVER THE RHINE RIVER In special recognition to Lt. Roland B. Minot of the 74th TCS, 434th TCG, Ninth Air Force, and to all Glider Pilots of World War II. This presentation (the pictures displayed in sequential order) begins with Lt. Minot's early glider training at Twentynine Palms in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. As a former glider instructor at South Plains Army Air Field in Lubbock, Texas, Minot received his combat training at Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Base in North Carolina. In December of 1944, Minot was assigned to the Ninth Air Force in England with the 434th TCG stationed out of Aldermaston RAF Base. In March of 1945, many of the 434th troop carrier glider pilots were transferred to A-48, France (an airfield south of Paris), to fly glider infantry troopers of the 17th Airborne Division into Germany during Operation Varsity, the last and greatest glider and paratrooper airborne operation in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Attached to the 435th TCG, Minot's combat trained unit (the 435th Combat Team) earned the distinction as the only company of Air Corps pilot officers to hold part of the 17th Airborne Division's defensive roadblock position against German forces. Glider Pilot Lt. Roland Minot armed with an M-1 rifle and bazooka participated in the action near the crossroads at, "The Battle Of Burp Gun Corner." It was at this location that elements of the 435th Combat Team (reinforced with an airborne manned 75mm howitzer flown in by CG-4A glider) decisively repulsed a company of well-armed German troops who were attempting a breakout from the ancient German town of Wesel. This is Roland B. Minot's World War II story as shot through the lens of his camera. |
 | Allies Drive Across Rhine To Victory, 1945/03/26 (1945) 1) "The Capture of Cologne - Tank units of the onrushing U.S. 1st Army rumble into Cologne's suburbs, with all guns blazing at heavy pockets of Nazi resistance. Stalled street cars are hauled out of the way, and Yank foot soldiers fight their way into Cologne, block by block. Cologne lays in absolute ruin, after having been a 'saturation attack' target for allied bombers for three years. In sharp contrast, the Cathedral stands almost undamaged. Near the Cathedral, a Nazi tank is caught in U.S. gun sights, to be set afire with a direct hit. Nazi prisoners are rounded up, Cologne natives return, while in back of the whole scene, the giant Hohenzollern Rhine bridge lies, mangled and twisted. Cologne is truly a 'dead city.' The Ludendorff Bridge - After this majestic 1,300 ft. bridge at Remagen, Germany was seized by the U.S. 9th Armored Division. Yank troops and supplies raced across it to the Rhine east bank in ever increasing numbers. Nazi precision bombers are driven off by anti-aircraft fire, the Remagen bridge-head widens, and hordes of Nazi prisoners are bagged." scenes of the Cathedral city of Cologne, mostly in rubble, lies before Allied army, streetcars used as barriers, "fleeing Nazi car doesn't get far," direct hit on German tank and crew flees, great domed cathedral spared on bombing, bridge destroyed, inhabitants returning, south at Remagen the bridge was captured; 2) "Prior to the opening of the momentous United Nations Conference in San Francisco on April 25th, the U.S. delegation covenes in Washington with Pres. Roosevelt. The U.S. members are Congressmen Eaton and Bloom, Senators Vandenburg and Connally, Dean Gildersleeve, Naval Commander Stassen and Sec. of State Stettinius. Pre-convention views of San Francisco reveal that the attractive West Coast metropolis is ready and waiting for the arrival of the dignitaries of the world. In a film interview, Sen. Stettinius states the aims and purposes of the parley." scenes of U.S. delegates to United Nations meets with FDR in Washington, preparing for general meeting in San Francisco, Stettinius speaks 3) Kaiser Seeks Clothing For War Victims - "New York City: Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser, chairman of the national drive to collect clothing for war sufferers in foreign lands announces that the compaign will extend from April 1st to April 30th." scenes of Henry Kaiser speaks on the need for clothing. (partial newsreel) |
 | The battle of the Rhine - order of battle The Battle of Huertgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought in its history[2]. The battles took place between September 19, 1944, and February 10, 1945, in a corridor of barely 50 square miles (129 km²) east of the Belgian--German border. |
 | River Rhine after WW2 - www.pastfinder.de Post War Germany, River Rhine, 1946. |
 | Fighting against British & Canadian in the Lower Rhine(1945) Combat footage. Die Deutsche Wochenschau. western Front: in the Dutch combat area, paratroopers travel across Rhine and take new positions while under aerial attack; in the Eifel, infantry destroy allied reconnaissance vehicle; knocked-out allied tanks; infantry fire from ruins of hatten. |
 | Operation Plunder During World War II, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the Rhine river at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe Canal by the British Second Army, under Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey (Operations Turnscrew, Widgeon, and Torchlight), and the U.S. Ninth Army (Operation Flashlight), under Lieutenant General William Simpson. XVIII U.S. Airborne Corps, consisting of British 6th Airborne Division and US 17th Airborne Division, conducted Operation Varsity. All of these formations were part of the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery. This was part of a coordinated set of Rhine crossings. |
 | Combats along the Rhine river, Western front (Feb 1945) Combat footage. Die Deutsche Wochenschau. Western Front: American prisoners; on Rhine, artillery fires a factory; District Party Director Grohe speaks with officers; marching Volksgrenadiers with Panzerfausts; paratroopers; anti-tank artillery (pak). |
 | 1940 Canadian Army parade in London British Newsreel. April 22, 1940. Following the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Canada's Parliament supported the government's decision to declare war on Germany on September 10, one week after the United Kingdom and France. Canadian airmen played a small but significant role in the Battle of Britain, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian merchant marine played a crucial role in the Battle of the Atlantic. C Force, two Canadian infantry battalions were involved in the failed defence of Hong Kong. Troops of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division also played a leading role in the disastrous Dieppe Raid in August 1942. The 1st Canadian Division and tanks of the independent 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade landed on Sicily in July 1943 and after a 38-day campaign there, took part in the successful Allied invasion of Italy. Canadian forces played an important role in the long advance north through Italy, eventually coming under their own corps headquarters after 5th Canadian Armoured Division joined them on the line in early 1944 after the costly battles on the Moro River and at Ortona.On June 6, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Division (supported by tanks of the independent 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade) landed on Juno Beach in the Battle of Normandy. Canadian airborne troops had also landed earlier in the day behind the beaches. Resistance on Juno was fierce, and casualties were high in the assault waves, in particular the first assault waves, which sustained a 50 percent casualty rate. By day's end, however, the Canadians had made the deepest penetrations inland of any of the five seaborne invasion forces. The Canadians went on to play an important role in the subsequent fighting in Normandy, with the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division coming ashore in July and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division in August. In the meantime, both a corps headquarters (II Canadian Corps) and eventually an army headquarters—for the first time in Canadian military history—were activated. One of the most important Canadian contributions to the war effort was in the Battle of the Scheldt, where First Canadian Army defeated an entrenched German force at great cost to help open Antwerp to Allied shipping.First Canadian Army fought in two more large campaigns; the Rhineland in February and March 1945, clearing a path to the Rhine River in anticipation of the assault crossing of that obstacle, and the subsequent battles on the far side of the Rhine in the last weeks of the war. The I Canadian Corps returned to northwest Europe from Italy in early 1945, and as part of a reunited First Canadian Army assisted in the liberation of The Netherlands (including the rescue of many Dutch from near-starvation conditions) and the invasion of Germany. |
 | LIberation of the Netherlands. "Left of the Line" Advance, from Canadian Army Newsreel 69, April 1945. After the crossing of the Rhine, the First Canadian Army was given two tasks: to liberate western Netherlands and to march through northeastern Netherlands and northern Germany up to the Weser River. The Canadians took 7,600 Casualties Liberating the Netherlands. Learn more at the following page: http://wwii.ca/page52.html |
 | Deutschland 1945 part 1 Deutschland 1945. the western and eastern fronts and of Volkstrumm recruitment. The East Prussian Offensive, known officially to the Soviets as the East Prussian Strategic Offensive Operation, (Russian: Восточно-Прусская стратегическая наступательная операция) was an offensive by the Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II). It lasted from 13 January 1945 to 25 April 1945, though some German units did not surrender until 9 May. The Battle of Königsberg was a major part of the offensive, which ended with a total victory for the Red Army. The East Prussian operation is known to German historians as the Second East Prussian Offensive. The First East Prussian operation, known also as the Goldap-Gumbinnen Operation, took place from 16-27 October 1944, and was carried out by the 3rd Belorussian Front under General I.D. Chernyakhovsky as part of the Memel Offensive Operation (Russian: Мемельская операция) of the 1st Baltic Front. The Soviet forces took heavy casualties while penetrating 30-60km into East Prussia and Poland, and the offensive was postponed until greater reserves could be gathered. The Ruhr Pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in late March and early April 1945, near the end of World War II, in the Ruhr Area of Germany. It was, for all intents and purposes, the final dagger in Nazi Germany's war effort, as more than 300,000 troops were taken prisoner. In March 1945, Allied Forces crossed the Rhine river. South of the Ruhr, General Omar Bradley's U.S. 12th Army Group's pursuit of the disintegrating German army resulted in the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine at Remagen by the U.S. First Army. Bradley and his subordinates quickly exploited the crossing made on March 7, 1945, and expanded the bridge head until the bridge collapsed 10 days later. |
 | Bridge At REMAGEN Ludendorff Brücke Museum "CROSS THE RHINE WITH DRY FEET COURTESY OF 9TH ARMD DIVISION" nowadays and original photographs from WW2 battlefield.western front. my mate Miro's (KVH Kosice) birthday trip over museums in western europe |
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