Operation Clipper
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During the Second World War, Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by the British XXX Corps to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944. Clipper was the preliminary to a wider Allied
Column of British Churchill tanks near Geilenkirchen
British infantry in action in the streets of Geilenkirchen
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry memorial in the Rischden - Tripsrath - Hoven area
Günther Blumentritt
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Günther Blumentritt was an officer in World War I, who became a Staff Officer under the Weimar Republic and went on to serve as a general in the German Army during World War II. He served throughout t
Operation Clipper
…Infantry Division, northwest of Geilenkirchen, and the extemporised 183rd Volksgrenadier Division, in the town and southeast of it. General der Infantrie Günther Blumentritt—commander of the XII SS Corps which the 176th and 183rd were subordinate to —had placed the bulk of his artillery in the area. South-east of Geilenkirchen…
Gerd von Rundstedt, Blumentritt's commander for much of the war.