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Operation Queen was an American operation during World War II at the Western Front at the German Siegfried Line.
The operation was aimed against the Rur River, as a staging point for a subsequent thrust over the river to the Rhine into Germany. It was conducted by the First and Ninth U.S. Armies.
The offensive commenced on 16 November 1944 with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war. However, Allied advance was unexpectedly slow, against heavy German resistance, especially in the Hürtgen Forest through which the main thrust of the offensive was carried out. By mid-December the Allies finally reached the Rur and tried to capture its important dams, when the Germans launched their own offensive dubbed Wacht am Rhein. The ensuing Battle of the Bulge led to the immediate cessation of the Allied offensive efforts into Germany until February 1945.
http://www.oldpicz.com/operation-queen/
https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/Siegfried/Siegfried%20Line/siegfried-ch17.htm
https://en.historylapse.org/operation-queen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Queen
Additional video footage :
https://youtu.be/ndZl-pNGqMY
@ col mikel COL Mikel J. Burroughs @ ltc stephen LTC Stephen F. @ ltc frank LTC (Join to see) @ ltc jeff LTC Jeff Shearer @ maj william Maj William W. 'Bill' Price @ capt marty Maj Marty Hogan @ smsgt doc SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas @ tsgt joe TSgt Joe C. @ ssgt robert SSgt Robert Marx @ msg andrew MSG Andrew White @ sfc joe SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL @ ssg robert SSG Robert Webster @ sgt jim SGT Jim Arnold @ sgt david SGT (Join to see) @ sgt david SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth @ sp5 mark SP5 Mark Kuzinski @ spc margaret SPC Margaret Higgins Alan K. SCPO Morris Ramsey Cynthia Croft
The operation was aimed against the Rur River, as a staging point for a subsequent thrust over the river to the Rhine into Germany. It was conducted by the First and Ninth U.S. Armies.
The offensive commenced on 16 November 1944 with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war. However, Allied advance was unexpectedly slow, against heavy German resistance, especially in the Hürtgen Forest through which the main thrust of the offensive was carried out. By mid-December the Allies finally reached the Rur and tried to capture its important dams, when the Germans launched their own offensive dubbed Wacht am Rhein. The ensuing Battle of the Bulge led to the immediate cessation of the Allied offensive efforts into Germany until February 1945.
http://www.oldpicz.com/operation-queen/
https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/Siegfried/Siegfried%20Line/siegfried-ch17.htm
https://en.historylapse.org/operation-queen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Queen
Additional video footage :
https://youtu.be/ndZl-pNGqMY
@ col mikel COL Mikel J. Burroughs @ ltc stephen LTC Stephen F. @ ltc frank LTC (Join to see) @ ltc jeff LTC Jeff Shearer @ maj william Maj William W. 'Bill' Price @ capt marty Maj Marty Hogan @ smsgt doc SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas @ tsgt joe TSgt Joe C. @ ssgt robert SSgt Robert Marx @ msg andrew MSG Andrew White @ sfc joe SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL @ ssg robert SSG Robert Webster @ sgt jim SGT Jim Arnold @ sgt david SGT (Join to see) @ sgt david SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth @ sp5 mark SP5 Mark Kuzinski @ spc margaret SPC Margaret Higgins Alan K. SCPO Morris Ramsey Cynthia Croft
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Great WWII share- and the video was pretty awesome. Morning brother SGT John " Mac " McConnell
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
WWII . Did you look at the Video ? After all some uniforms from the Great war made it into WW II.
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