Operation Plunder

Quando

23 de mar. de 1945 – 24 de mar. de 1945

Tipo

Operação militar

Coordenadas

51.47° N, 7.55° E

Description

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

Posicionado na área, não em um local exato.

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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