"Battle of the Reichswald: Allies Surge Toward the Rhine" Topic
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| Tango01 | 28 May 2018 9:36 p.m. PST |
"On February 8, 1945, Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks climbed onto a platform halfway up a tree. From there, as he wrote later, "I could see in front of me a peaceful looking valley with small farms dotted here and there. On the far side lay the sinister Reichswald Forest. Over this valley 30 Corps were about to attack." Horrocks's men, watching one of the heaviest British artillery barrages of the war, expected a walkover. Instead, they would suffer some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Reichswald was the five-mile gap between the Maas and Rhine Rivers and the natural advance route from the German-Dutch border to the Ruhr. Since the British had closed on this sector in October 1944, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had seen this valley of geometrically planted forests, towns, and small cities as the site for his next attack. It lay at the absolute right flank of the German West Wall defenses. Clearing it out would require a set-piece attack…."
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| Neal Smith | 29 May 2018 8:26 a.m. PST |
One of my favorite campaigns. |
| Tango01 | 29 May 2018 10:54 a.m. PST |
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