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VERITABLE
VERITABLE, codename for an operation carried out by Crerar's First Canadian Army, with the British 30th Corps under command, to clear the Germans from east of Nijmegen in the Netherlands south-east to the Lower Rhine in preparation for the Rhine crossings. After a preliminary operation (BLACKCOCK) in mid-January 1945 to clear the Roermond triangle, VERITABLE opened on 8 February 1945 with the largest artillery barrage (from 1,050 guns) so far laid down during the campaign in north-west Europe. This helped the four assaulting divisions to break through the first line of German defences on the first day, with the second, which represented part of the Siegfried Line, being breached the following day. The attacking troops reached the Rhine at Emmerich, east of Nijmegen, on 13 February, but, in the face of poor weather and tenacious resistance by the German First Parachute Army, clearance of the area to the south (codenamed BLOCKBUSTER) was slow, with fierce fighting, especially in the Reichswald. Not until the Ninth US Army's GRENADE operation, a thrust from the south designed to join hands with VERITABLE, began to make progress did the Germans begin to withdraw across the Rhine. The completion of this on 9 March marked the conclusion of VERITABLE. It cost Montgomery's Twenty-First Army Group 15,000 casualties; the Germans lost 70,000.
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I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "VERITABLE." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "VERITABLE." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-VERITABLE.html I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "VERITABLE." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-VERITABLE.html |
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veritable
ver·i·ta·ble / ˈvəritəbəl/ • adj. used as an intensifier, often to qualify a metaphor: the early 1970s witnessed a veritable price explosion. DERIVATIVES: ver·i·ta·bly / -blē/ adv. |
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"veritable." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "veritable." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-veritable.html "veritable." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-veritable.html |
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