What can I say. Dunkirk? Market Garden? Messines Ridge was suppose to be Commonwealth's Greatest campaign of WW1, yet German retook that hill few weeks later. Yes I give the tommies credit for fighting on and holding the last line of Democracy. Thankee Tommies. But 'twas the Yanks who broke the German lines, 'twas the Yanks pushed the tommies out of their island into Mainland, 'twas the Americans who first crossed the Rhine.