Part of the Western Front of 1944-45 in the European theatre of World War II
Breskens Pocket
Date
10 October - 3 November 1944
Location
Breskens, Netherlands
Result
Canadian Victory
Belligerents
Canada
Germany
Commanders and leaders
Harry Crerar
Knut Eberding
Strength
Canadian First Army
3rd Canadian Division
4th Canadian Division
15th Army
64th Infantry Division
Casualties and losses
2,077 casualties[1]
12,707 casualties[1]
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Liberation of the Netherlands
Market Garden
Joe's Bridge
Nijmegen
1st Arnhem
Berlin
Pegasus
Nijmegen salient
Scheldt
Breskens
Hoogerheide
Walcheren
Infatuate
Overloon
Putten
Pheasant
Broekhuizen
Blackcock
Kapelsche Veer
Texel
Amherst
Keystone
2nd Arnhem
Groningen
Otterloo
Manna & Chowhound
Chronology of the liberation
The Breskens Pocket was a pocket of fortified German resistance against the Canadian First Army in the Battle of the Scheldt during the Second World War. It was chiefly situated on the southern shore of the Scheldt estuary in the southern Netherlands, near the Belgian border. It was named after the town of Breskens, which was later freed from German occupation during Operation Switchback.[2]
The BreskensPocket was a pocket of fortified German resistance against the Canadian First Army in the Battle of the Scheldt during the Second World War...
the south shore of the Scheldt around the Dutch town of Breskens, called the "Breskenspocket". The Polish 1st Armoured Division simultaneously pushed...
Battle honours include Caen, Falaise, clearing the Channel ports, the Breskenspocket, and the final offensives of 1945. During the Battle of the Scheldt...
Battle of Normandy at the Falaise Pocket, the advance from Normandy and spent almost two months engaged at the BreskensPocket as well as Operation Pheasant...
Antwerp and secure access to South Beveland. The second was to clear the Breskenspocket north of the Leopold Canal (Operation Switchback). The third—Operation...
operation in Hurtgen Forest, east of Aachen Switchback (1944) taking of Breskenspocket, first phase of the Battle of the Scheldt. Thunderbolt (1944) , the...
The Seine, 1944 [Boulogne, 1944] Moerbrugge Moerkerke The Scheldt BreskensPocket The Lower Maas Kapelsche Veer The Rhineland The Rhine Apeldoorn Küsten...
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the Battle of the Scheldt, where the First Canadian Army reduced the BreskensPocket, cleared the mouth of the Scheldt and opened Antwerp to Allied shipping...
month to clear the waterways. Large battles were fought to clear the BreskensPocket, Woensdrecht and the Zuid-Beveland Peninsula of German forces, primarily...
The Laison The Seine, 1944 Calais, 1944 The Scheldt Leopold Canal BreskensPocket The Rhineland Waal Flats Moyland Wood The Rhine Emmerich–Hoch Elten...
as much impact to the enemy troops during the barrage, secured the Breskenspocket on the north side of the Scheldt river. In 1983, it was decided that...
Falaise Road The Laison Chambois The Seine, 1944 Moerbrugge The Scheldt BreskensPocket The Lower Maas Kapelsche Veer The Rhineland The Rhine Küsten Canal...
the Battle of the Scheldt opened with fierce fighting to reduce the Breskenspocket. Here, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division encountered tenacious German...
Scheldt, the Germans had been cornered in Zeebrugge, surrendering the BreskensPocket on November 2. Both Zuid (South) and Noord-Beveland (North Beveland)...
part in Operation Switchback, the Canadian operations to clear the BreskensPocket, and with 3rd Division against Overloon, where L/Sgt Finan won a bar...
The Laison The Seine, 1944 Calais, 1944 The Scheldt Leopold Canal BreskensPocket The Rhineland Waal Flats Moyland Wood The Rhine Emmerich–Hoch Elten...
Falaise Road The Laison Chambois The Seine, 1944 Moerbrugge The Scheldt BreskensPocket The Lower Maas Kapelsche Veer The Rhineland The Hochwald Veen Twente...
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