Home XVIII Corps (Airborne) Operation Varsity (Germany 1945) Paratroopers of the US 17th Airborne Division ride into Münster, Germany, on the back deck of a British Churchill tank, March 1945

Paratroopers of the US 17th Airborne Division ride into Münster, Germany, on the back deck of a British Churchill tank, March 1945

An American Paratrooper of the 17th Airborne Division and a British tank crew share cigarettes during Operation Varsity, the attack across the Rhine near Wesel, Germany March 1945
LGen Matthew B. Ridgway
European Center of Military History (EUCMH)