Operation Plunder

When

23 Mar 1945 – 24 Mar 1945

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

51.47° N, 7.55° E

Description

1945 operation, part of a coordinated set of Rhine crossings during WWII

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Part of a coordinated set of Rhine crossings during WWII

Operation Plunder was a military operation to cross the Rhine on the night of 23 March 1945, launched by the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The crossing of the river was at Rees, Wesel, and south of the river Lippe by the British Second Army under Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey, and the United States Ninth Army under Lieutenant General William H. Simpson.

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