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Germany
Commanders and leaders
Neil Ritchie John Crocker
Gustav-Adolf von Zangen
Units involved
XII Corps
I Corps
LXXXIX Corps
LXVII Corps
LXXXVIII Corps
Casualties and losses
Unknown
~8,000 captured
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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
Operation Pheasant, also known as the Liberation of North Brabant, was a major operation to clear German troops from the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands during the fighting on the Western Front in the Second World War. This offensive was conceived as a result of the failure of Operation Market Garden and the allied effort to capture the important port of Antwerp. It was conducted by the allied 21st Army Group between 20 October to 4 November 1944.[1]
After overcoming some German resistance, this operation liberated the cities of Tilburg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Roosendaal, Bergen op Zoom, Willemstad and Breda. As a result, the offensive cleared much of Brabant; the German positions which had defended the region along its canals and rivers were broken.[2]
^Goddard p 89
^Buckley pp 244–47
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