The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 A Cromwell tank of 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards supporting infantry of the 9th Durham Light Infantry and their Kangaroo APCs in Weseke, 29 March 1945. 7th Armoured Division had been reorganised into battlegroups in February, and the ‘Skins’ had been matched with 9th DLI, together with ‘K’ Battery of 3rd RHA, a troop of flail tanks and some RE Churchill bridgelayers. By the end of the month, British Second Army had advanced 70 miles from its bridgehead over the Rhine.

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