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The Battle of Groningen – Holland April 1945

This battle completed the drive north of the Second Canadian Division in which I was a participant. The battle is well described in the reference I gave at the end of my previous article however; all war stories can only describe general conditions and the framework of battles with very few close-up personal experiences of individuals. Even then for every small story hundreds of others much more intense than mine will never be told.

There were several other incidents and fights that took place on the way to Groningen that I have not written about because I cannot be sure when they occurred. The two episodes prior to this I remember well because of the souvenirs I collected on the way and because of the significance and value of my fortunate meeting with Sergeant “Shorty” Heintzman. I will relate these missing adventures at a later date.

Our Forward Observation Officer (FOO) team together in our Bren Gun Carrier entered the city from the south. We were under fire almost from the moment we started into the first built up area. Our Captain had been given general orders to head for the main railway yards. We stopped at the corner of a street close to the wall of a house. The Captain took time to look at his map. He told us to keep low as we came out from the protection of the building turned right and raced several blocks to the east; then we would turn left close to the rail yards,

Just as Rocky our driver revved the engine and began to pull out, one of our tanks to our left on the street not a dozen yards from us fired his main gun. The shock of the blast blew several tiles off the roof of our protecting building and showered us with broken tiles. One hit Rocky and quite badly bruised his shoulder (luckily no broken bones). The tank commander realized what had happened when he saw the nose of our carrier and waved us on. We quickly completed our turn raced down the street and turned left meeting up with our infantry, accompanying tanks and several Kangaroos.

I was ordered to carry the #18 radio set and the Bren gun and go on the attack across the rail yards with one platoon of the infantry. Our Captain, and Bob Lowe my buddy signaler and our injured driver Rocky would continue on with the armor and the rest of the infantry, meeting up with us later. I was to stay in communication.

The railway yards seemed massive. They looked to be some 800 yards across and ran at least twice that distance to the left and right (there is a partial picture of them on the Battle of Groningen website I mentioned in the notes of my last article). On the other side of the yard were many railway buildings a single story in height that sat on top of a concrete platform designed to allow freight cars to load and unload easily. Behind them was a street with houses about three stories high with many windows overlooking the rail yards; a perfect place for enemy machine guns and snipers to pick us off as we crossed the tracks.

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