Rhineland Offensive: The Final Blow To The Last Nazi Line Of Defense | Greatest Tank Battles

Canada is so awesome. In my country they are heroes cause they liberated us in WW2 and saved us from starvation. Love from Netherlands

The more I learn of Canadian contributions during ww2,the more my respect for them increases exponentially ! Drive on brothers! Heartfelt gratitude from Texas.

Best allies we had our neighbors to the north. The Canadians gave the Germans a fight and they fought ferociously

Canada punched above its weight for this war. By the end of it it had the world's third-largest navy and a 10th of Canada's population was in the military.

It's sad, no downright pathetic, that in history classes in Canada, there is no mention of this battle. We hear about Dieppe, D-Day, Hong Kong, The Italian Campaign and the liberation of the Netherlands. I'm 54 years old, from a military family, and briefly served in the military myself, and this is the first I've ever heard of this battle.

Growing up on a Canadian Air Force base in Northern France in the late 50’s, we kids would find all kinds of interesting stuff. 50 Calibre shells and bullets all over the place. The wing of a plane sticking out of the ground, with a Maltese Cross on it. Other bits of planes. Helmets everywhere. Rotting ammo boxes. A friend and I found a jerry potato masher grenade once. We knew you were supposed to throw it so we tried that. Didn’t work thank God. I was 7 years old ffs. 139,000 Air Crew, including 49,000 pilots (my father was one of them), were trained in Canada during WW2. Canada had the world’s 3rd largest navy by the war’s end. Our army fought with distinction in Italy, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, not to mention in most of the pubs in Britain. So…yeah, we did our bit. And then some.

Thank you, my dad served with 4th canadian armored division, never talked much about his experience but I mentioned I wanted to sign up and he was adamant that he served enough for the both of us.

The Canadians dont get enough credit. For a smaller fighter force, they more than make up for that in their bravery. We are proud to have them as neighbors and allies thru so many wars.

Thank God for the bravery and courage of our Canadian neighbors. Such men will never be forgotten whether it be here on earth or beyond.

It is sad that at school we don't learn enough about what we did in WW1 and WW2.

My father served in a Sherman tank in WW2. He said the battle for the Schelt Estuary and the Hochwald Forest was some of the worst he experienced in the war.

🇨🇦Fellow Canadians love our “good” history but we’re always missed, thank you for making this! as a 🇨🇦Canadian I learned lots! 🇨🇦🤘We don’t learn about this in school.

I’m honored for them as our north neighbors. From America!

I live near Xanten as a matter of fact many parts of the surrounding forest are still closed because of old ammunition from that battle hidden in the soil and trees.

Yeah, the infantry had a role in this too. Would have been good to give them a mention. The regiment from my home town took major casualties in this battle.

Two times you don't mess with Canada: 1. Hockey. 2. War.

That's soldiering of the first class. Greetings from America in honor of the bravery of Canadian soldiers.

Canada and Australia deserve much more credit than they get

T. Garry Gould of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers was badly wounded there, at the Hochwald Gap, but recovered and lived to the age of 93. He was a tank commander, leading young men (18-19-year-olds) from Normandy to Holland to Germany, fighting the Nazis until they knocked him out at the Gap. (He was only 23 or 24.) He told me a few stories that aren't in any books or videos. My favorite was about his crew meeting some pretty girls in a town in the Netherlands, but they didn't even get to first base because of a German counter-attack. Those guys saw some horrible things and risked their lives day after day. We owe them a lot of respect and gratitude.

I wonder if the one and only Holy Roller was there. The Holy Roller is a Sherman that landed on D-Day and fought all across Europe. It’s now the he only surviving WW2 veteran in London Canada. The Holy Roller sits on a plinth in Victoria Park. The old baby was recently restored, and looks great!