Word: reichswald
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...Said he: "United Kingdom troops form two-thirds of the Canadian First Army." He could not, he said, give details, for security reasons. But two facts did pass censorship: last week the Canadian First Army was about three-fourths British; the "Canadians" who last month broke through the formidable Reichswald were mainly the British XXX Corps, seasoned in North Africa and Sicily...
With bagpipes skirling, General Henry D. G. Crerar's Canadians followed the barrage into Germany. Said one private from Regina: "We're conquerors now, not just liberators." In flooded areas, the Canucks bustled from one "island" to another in amphibious vehicles. They braved the thick Reichswald, gained seven miles in three days, tore the guts out of the German 84th Division. At week's end they were fighting from house to house in Cleve, against German paratroops rushed north from Alsace. Cleve fell...
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