After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After The Battle Issue No. 172
After the Battle

After The Battle Issue No. 172

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After The Battle Issue No. 172

The Battle for the Hochwald Gap



Author:Editor: Karel Margry
Language:English text
Format:Magazine
Dimensions:Soft cover, 8.5" x 11"
Pages:55
Photos:wartime B+W photos and present day color comparisons
Maps:10
Publisher:After The Battle, UK
Item No. ATB-172


  • OPERATION BLOCKBUSTER- Colonel Charles P. Stacey tells us how on February 26, 1945, having fought its way through the dreaded Reichswald forest, the First Canadian Army launched Operation 'Blockbuster', a continuation of the massed offensive aimed at securing the Rhineland as far south as Xanten and linking up with the Americans coming up from the south. 
  • Major Fred Tilston, VC- On Thursday, March 1, 1945, at the height of the battle for the Hochwald Gap, Major Fred Tilston of the Canadian Essex Scottish launched his under-strength C Company into an attack on the enemy-held Hochwald forest. Showing extreme courage, Tilston led his men across 400 metres of fire-swept open ground and into the German positions. Despite being wounded twice, he personally knocked out an enemy machine-gun nest. Having survived this and further actions, he was awarded the VC. The story is told by W. Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker. 
  • Prisoner of War at Brest- Lt. Paul R. Stevenson tells his remarkable story. Having been captured by German Fallschirmjäger just north of the city, he was taken inside encircled Brest, spending 20 days in a small prisoner of war camp before making a daring escape with three other US soldiers across the water back to American lines.