I'm John Batch with James Holland, brothers in arms.

James has just described how a Sherman tank can defeat a Tiger tank.

Now we're about to see how a Sherman tank can push and push.

We go to the Naurau Valley.

James will do it better than I do.

And also a commander of, I believe believe 70 corps at this point a man by the name of they call

him a fun tama because he drives them what is operation? Well this isn't the sort of

closing stages of the Normandy campaign. It's actually a it's a Canadian-led

operation pushing down from from corn the Burguos Ridge down into to

fallays and the crossing of the Nauru is a you know again it's on a sort of

flank action of Operation Tractable. Yeah so so General Thomas is part, he's a commander of the 43rd,

the 43rd, Westix division, and he's known as Von Torma,

because Von Torma was a German Africa court commander captured at Alameen and

show the show would range is christen him, nickname him Von Tomer after that because

he's sort of Germanic in his driving and his rooflessness.

He's always sacking brigade commanders and what have you.

They call him a butcher at one point.

Butcher.

Butcher Thomas. He's a very hard man, utterly devoid of any sense of humor whatsoever.

But, you know, a good driving general all the same. Just not a very pleasant man.

And they got across the Nueiro, which is not a particularly wide river,

but it's in a deep kind of a deep river valley,

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