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Operation Blockbuster: The Battle For Hochwald's Gap | Greatest Tank Battles (2021x15)

: 19, 2021

On February 8th 1945 Canadian forces launched one of the most ferocious and costly battles of WW2 with the aim of taking the Hochwald Gap and forcing the German army back over the Rhine and into Germany. In The Battle For The Rhineland we hear from both sides of this devastating offensive and re-live what it was really like in the winter of 1945.