LVT Buffalos of 11th Royal Tank Regiment, 79th Armoured Division are used to retrieve Canadian Soldiers of Le Régiment de la Chaudière, 3rd Canadian Division in Leuth, Netherlands, during Operation Veritable after the Germans intentionally flooded the area in February 1945.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – George Silk
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Scottish troops watch as German refugees stream back through the village of Bedburg near Kleve, 19 February 1945.
Then image: IWM (B 14736)
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A Churchill tank and a Valentine Mk XI Royal Artillery OP tank (left) in a heavily destroyed Goch, 21 February 1945.
Then image: IWM (B 14779)
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A Daimler Scout Car of the British 15th Scottish Infantry Division passes the water tower on the Klever Straße in Goch on February 20, 1945.
Then image: © IWM B 14797
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Infantry of the 2nd Gordon Highlanders clearing snipers in Kleve, 11 February 1945.
(the old photo is more forward, but nowadays there is a junction).
Then image: © IWM B 14603
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Sherman Firefly tanks move through the ruins of Kleve on their way to support the attack on Goch, 16 February 1945.
Then image: © IWM B 14666
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Infantry, carriers and trucks advance through Kleve, 16 February 1945.
Then image: © IWM B 14675
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Original wartime caption: He’s well off for weapons. And his new dagger belonged to an S.S. man. The blade is inscribed ‘My Honour is True’ (Sgt A. Tait, New Clarendon Inn, Appleby St, North Shields, Northumberland).
Then image: © IWM B 14788
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Churchill tanks of 6th Guards Tank Brigade and infantry of the 2nd Gordon Highlanders in Kleve, 11 February 1945. (Did this one before, but on the wrong location)
Then image: © IWM B 14608
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The first infantry in the town of Gennep, 13 PI “C” Coy 5th Black Watch take another house in their advance up the main street.
Then image: © IWM B 14619
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