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(Video thread.) Operation Pheasant (20 October – 4 November 1944), the clearing of the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. #WW2 #HISTORY One of "Hobart's Funnies", the Churchill "Crocodile" flame thrower, effectively

#OTD in 1944, the second day of the German offensive. An account of an unknown Wiltshire soldier. "During the early hours of October 2nd, 1944, we were attacked by German

(Thread.) After operation Market Garden, German High Command regarded the Allied bridgehead north of the Waal River as a severe threat. It might be used as a springboard to the

(Market Garden thread.) In a message, dated 29 August 1944, Eisenhower wrote: "First Allied Airborne Army, in conjunction with the Northern Group of Armies, will plan and prepare for launching

18 August 1944. Probably the only footage of someone earning a Victoria Cross. Canadian Major David Currie secured Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive and withstood heavy counterattacks for 36 hours. His small force killed