Guards Armoured Division was part of XXX Corps' reserve for the offensive into the Reichswald (Operation Veritable) beginning on 7 February 1945. Conditions in the forest were so bad that only the division's infantry went in, on 14 February. On 22 February the rest of the division was still waiting to be called forward. Finally on 5 March it passed through and captured Bonninghardt and its commanding ground, then next day it broke through the German lateral line after stiff fighting. By the end of Veritable the Allies had closed up to the Rhine.