Battle of the Bulge & Rhine Crossings 1945

A Trip On The River Downstream At Night

Kings Own Scottish Borderers, part of the 15th Scottish Infantry Division who had at this time been...

'H' Hour for Operation PLUNDER, Crossing The Rhine

The Rhine crossing would involve Twenty-Nine Divisions,a total of one million men.The objective was to...

Operation Varsity

He achieved the rank of staff sergeant and served with 'B' Squadron, No 1 Wing the Glider Pilot...

Bob and the Rhine Crossings.

After the attack on London and the south by the 'Doodles'my old work mate Bob Barnes, who was a...

Walter Fuller — Across the Rhine

We had been renamed the 4th Royal Tank Regiment and for this operation our Shermans had been replaced with...

Mr W.F.Lowbridge: Crossing the Rhine 1945

On March 25th 1945, the assault over the Rhine took place at Rees and our Engineering Company was in the...

Last Stand at Wesel on the Rhine

On 9th March 1945,I was one of some 100 men who were sent to try and make safe the way for tanks...

Crossing the Rhine

I was a blacksmith, and began with my father in Barnet, London... Then I was in the Wessex Infantry 43rd...

Wartime bridge over the River Rhine

The bridge enabled troops to cross the River Rhine and reinforce the inventory on the far bank....

A Scot is amongst the first to cross the Rhine

My most vivid memory of WWII was crossing the Rhine at 2100hrs on 23rd March 1945, four days after my 19th...

My Flight Above Folkestone

The date was March 24th 1945 and with many other members of the 6th British Airborne Division I was en...

susie went to bovington