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    The Battle of the Scheldt in World War II was a series of military operations to open up the Scheldt river between Antwerp and the North Sea for shipping...
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  • directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. that depicts the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. The film follows a Dutch Axis soldier played by Gijs Blom, a British...
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    The Scheldt (/ˈʃɛlt, ˈskɛlt/ SHELT, SKELT; French: Escaut [ɛsko]; Dutch: Schelde [ˈsxɛldə] ) is a 435-kilometre-long (270 mi) river that flows through...
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  • The Battle of Walcheren Causeway (Operation Vitality) was an engagement of the Battle of the Scheldt between the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, elements...
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    Léo Major (redirect from Battle of Zwolle)
    captured 93 German soldiers during the Battle of the Scheldt in Zeeland in the southern Netherlands. According to the Ottawa Citizen, Major and his friend...
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    to the port of Antwerp in the Battle of the Scheldt. However, even if the Scheldt Estuary had been secured immediately at the start of September, the port...
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    21st Army Group (category Army groups of the British Army in World War II)
    water during the Battle of the Scheldt. Walcheren itself was captured in late 1944 by the last major amphibious assault in Europe in the Second World War...
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    The Western Scheldt (Dutch: Westerschelde) in the province of Zeeland in the southwestern Netherlands, is the estuary of the Scheldt river. This river...
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  • The order of battle for the Battle of the Scheldt lists the Allied and German forces that participated in said World War II battle from October 2 to November...
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    The Battle of the Scheldt also known as the Battle of Walcheren (known in Dutch as Slag bij Reimerswaal) was a naval battle that took place on 29 January...
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    2nd Canadian Division during World War II (category Infantry divisions of Canada)
    the retaking of the Channel Ports, the Battle of the Scheldt, and the liberation of the Netherlands. The division was deactivated shortly after the end...
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    The Battle of the Lys and the Escaut was the third and last phase of the Second Battle of Belgium (French: 2ème Bataille de Belgique) or the Ypres-Lys...
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    Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
    divisions, across the Scheldt to the island of Walcheren and South Beveland. There, they were attacked during the Battle of the Scheldt 2 October-8 November...
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    Canadian Army fought the Battle of the Scheldt, opening the port of Antwerp to shipping. As a result, by the end of October, the supply situation had...
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  • No. 48 (Royal Marine) Commando (category Commando units and formations of the United Kingdom)
    Erebus; the garrison surrendered after two hours of fighting. Following the Battle of the Scheldt, No. 48 Commando raided across the Meuse (Maas) in the Netherlands...
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    Montgomery's equivocal acceptance of responsibility he blames lack of support, and also refers to the Battle of the Scheldt which was undertaken by Canadian...
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    Breskens Pocket (category Battles of World War II involving Canada)
    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...
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  • Aachen Switchback (1944) taking of Breskens pocket, first phase of the Battle of the Scheldt. Thunderbolt (1944) , the battle for Fort Driant, near Metz Totter...
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    Operation Market Garden (category Aerial operations and battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    advanced northwards and westwards, the Canadian First Army taking the Scheldt Estuary in the Battle of the Scheldt. Allied forces also advanced eastwards...
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    7th Canadian Infantry Brigade (category Infantry brigades of the Canadian Army)
    for the assault landings on Juno Beach in Normandy on 6 June 1944. After fighting in Normandy, the brigade took part in the Battle of the Scheldt. After...
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  • Siege of Dunkirk (1944) Operation Wellhit Operation Undergo Battle of the Scheldt Lorraine Campaign: September–December 1944 Battle of Nancy Battle of Metz...
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    Terrapin (amphibious vehicle) (category Military trucks of the United Kingdom)
    used in 1944 at Antwerp during the Battle of the Scheldt. Terrapins served with the Royal Engineer assault teams of the 79th Armoured Division and were...
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    The Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 – November 6, 1944. D & M Publishers. ISBN 978-1-926685-80-9. "Assault Plan". United States Army Center of...
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    79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (category Armoured divisions of the British Army in World War II)
    ships ashore; the design was used at the Battle of the Scheldt during the crossing of the Rhine in 1945. The Kangaroo armoured personnel carrier was a...
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    soldier in November 1944 in the Netherlands in the Battle of Walcheren Causeway, an engagement of the Battle of the Scheldt Thorn, 2 March 1945 for locating...
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    The operation was part of the wider Battle of the Scheldt and involved two assault landings from the sea by the 4th Special Service Brigade and the 52nd...
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  • lack of volunteers. Further contributing to the crisis were heavy losses being taken by the First Canadian Army in the Battle of the Scheldt, the most...
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  • No. 47 (Royal Marine) Commando (category Commando units and formations of the United Kingdom)
    Tanks. The Battle of the Scheldt started 1 November 1944, with 4th Special Service Brigade assigned to carry out a seaborne assault on the island of Walcheren...
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    Staffordshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps (category Regiments of the British Army in World War II)
    this role in the Battle of the Scheldt and the crossings of the Rhine (Operation Plunder) and Elbe (Operation Enterprise). Postwar, the Staffordshire...
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  • required for specific operations. The regiment's first action in its new role came during the Battle of the Scheldt. In Operation Vitality 52nd (Lowland)...
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