Churchill tanks at the onset of Operation Veritable, 9 February 1945
Date
8 February – 27 March 1945
Location
Reichswald, (Germany), and adjacent areas
Result
Allied victory
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Blackcock
Rhineland
Veritable
Grenade
Blockbuster
Plunder
Flashpoint
Varsity
Archway
Lumberjack
Remagen
Cologne
Gisela
Undertone
Aschaffenburg
TF Baum
Frankfurt
Ruhr
Paderborn
Würzburg
Kassel
Heilbronn
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Dortmund
Friesoythe
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Lippach
Düsseldorf
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Hamburg
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Dragoon
Paris
Siegfried Line campaign
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Calais
Market Garden
Lorraine
Aachen
Hürtgen Forest
Scheldt
Queen
Bulge
Nordwind
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End of World War II in Europe
The Rhineland Offensive was a series of allied offensive operations by 21st Army Group commanded by Bernard Montgomery from 8 February 1945 to 25 March 1945, at the end of the Second World War. The operations were aimed at occupying the Rhineland and securing a passage over the Rhine river.[1]
It was part of General Dwight D. Eisenhower's "broad front" strategy to occupy the entire west bank of the Rhine before its crossing. The Rhineland Offensive encompassed Operation Veritable, Operation Grenade, Operation Blockbuster, Operation Plunder and Operation Varsity.[2]
^Paul Douglas Dickson (2007). A thoroughly Canadian general : a biography of General H.D.G. Crerar. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, p.360.
^Rosendaal, J. (2014). De Bevrijding in Beeld. Van Neerpelt tot Wesel, 1944–1945, Nijmegen, Vantilt, p.6. 9789081450003.
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