Battle For Cleve 

Graeme SYDNEY we always go in with style.

Lawrence mcintosh My grandad was shot on the exact same day and I presume in that same place. He was part of the 5th Dorsetshire Regiment.

My Grandad was in the 9th Seaforth, he was killed in the Reichswald on March 23, 1945.

My Grandfather made it through the Reichswald, but hit a mine near Cleve. He survived. I made the trip over this Summer. Stayed in Groesbeck.

stuart mackinnon was this battle also kind of a meatgrinder?

My dad was an officer in the 43rd Recce and shot in February 45 (exact day unknown) near Cleves, in the Reichswald, when a German round took off the top of his left thumb and hit him in the chest. A cigarette case deflected and shattered that bullet and sent the shrapnel into his legs.

Cleve ist korrekt.

Früher wurde kleve mit c geschrieben

Ich wohnte in der Nähe von Weeze - Laarbruch. Auf Englisch sagt man Cleve oder Cleves aber auf Deutsch sagt man Kleve. Tschüss :)

@@jamesmiddleton1278 Me too. October 1981 to September 1985.

Anne of Cleves...wife of Henry VIII,

As does your childish comment.

If only rou were there.

Non sense you can say what you want about his personality but you can't deny his ability as an organiser and planner. There were constraints on the British empire forces that the Americans didn't have which informed some of his choices .

@@johnstevenson1709 people carry on about Monty because of Market-Garden. But the failure of Market-Garden was: 1) Ike pushing; 2) Monty believing, like everyone else, that Germany in the West was finished. Monty “learned the lesson;” Bradley, who surely knew of the operation would make the same “Germany’s finished” mistake twice. Bradley sacrificed men in the Huertgenwald, and then in the Ardennes, all because the Germans were “finished.” Mark Clark in Italy was of the same “they’re finished” mentality, and consequently wasted men. Monty’s operations after Market-Garden were well planned and well executed. Whilst Cleve was a “meat grinder,” British and Commonwealth forces won. Huertgen Forest was a meat grinder, and the US lost.

Ring your nurse, lassie. Maybe, spend a year or three,...and catch a grip. Starting with the comprehensive 'TIK YT 's Channel analysis.

What a load of twaddle. Your ignorance shines through. Don't embarrass yourself....