10K views · 395 reactions | Amazing then & now pictures from operation Veritable. The aim was to destroy German positions between the River Maas and the River Rhine and to break through between these two rivers, allowing the formation of a front along the Rhine. #worldwar2 #worldwar2history #worldwar2pictures #worldwar2picture #ww2 #ww2pictures #ww2history #wwii #wwiihistory #wwiipictures | Joël Stoppels Battlefield Tours | Facebook

Soldiers of the 129th Infantry Brigade fight in Kleve, Germany, during Operation Veritable, February 1945. The clip comes from a 1984 documentary on the operation, available in full on our website: https://bit.ly/3SGwvUn © IWM DRA 1561 | Imperial War Museum London

Rocket projectiles are fired from a Land Mattress by 102 LAA Regiment Royal Artillery southeast of Nijmegen, targeting the Siegfried Line at the start of Operation Veritable, 8 February 1945. Find the full footage here: https://bit.ly/4lVQ8Ew Film: IWM A70 237-2 | Imperial War Museum London

February 1945. Operation Veritable. A Kangaroo was a Canadian armoured personnel carrier (APC) created removing the turret from a tank. Very popular with the infantry. #WW2 #HISTORY | British & Commonwealth Forces