Item PYMAN 5/22 - Account of 2 Army operations, North West Europe, Dec 1944 - May 1945

A short account of the operations of the 2 British Army, prepared by 2 Army, entitled 'The last five months, part 1 -winter offensive' relating Operation VERITABLE, the role of the 2 Army in the Ardennes campaign, France, 1944-1945. With sketches, maps and aerial photographs including map of Belgium, scale 1:250,000 part of GSGS 4042, sheet 3 showing the dispositions of 30 Corps for the possible defence of Brussels and Louvain, 21 -22 Dec 1944; map of North West Europe, scale 1:250,000, part of GSGS 4042, sheets 3 & 6 showing the limit of enemy penetration in the Ardennes and formations employed; map showing dispositions before Operation BLACKCOCK, the attack by the British 12 Corps in Roermond triangle, north of Aachen, Netherlands Jan 1945, scale, 1:100,000, parts of GSGS 4336 sheets 4 & 9 and of GSGS 4416, sheet R1; map showing objectives for Operations VERITABLE, 1 Canadian Army Rhineland attack from Nijmegen area, Feb-Mar 1945 and GRENADE, a Rhineland attack by 9 US Army Feb-Mar 1945, scale 1:250,000 parts of GSGS 4042 sheets 2A, 3A & 3 and of GSGS 4346 sheets K51, K52; map showing initial objectives for Operations PLUNDER, the northern crossing of the Rhine by 21 Army Group and VARSITY, the airborne operation to establish bridgehead on east banks of the Rhine between Emmerich and Weser, Germany, Mar 1945, part of GSGS 4416, sheets P1, Q1; 2 maps of Germany. 1 file