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Once the German defenders were no longer a threat, it took another three weeks to de-mine the harbours; the first convoy carrying Allied supplies could not unload in Antwerp until 29 November 1944. Once Antwerp was opened, it allowed 2.5 million tons of supplies to arrive at that port between November 1944 and April 1945, which were critical to ...
Operation Infatuate was the code name given to an Anglo-Canadian operation in November 1944 during the Second World War to open the port of Antwerp to shipping and relieve logistical constraints. 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 ...
Map of the liberation of North Brabant and Dutch Zeeland (Battle of the Scheldt). This is a chronological overview of the dates at which the liberation by the Allies in World War II took place of a number of Dutch cities and towns.
4 September 1944 Antwerp [23] 4 September 1944 Edegem [24] ... was earlier recaptured by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge. 23 January 1945 St. Vith:
17 to 20 September – Battle of Nijmegen; 17 to 26 September – Battle of Arnhem; 17 Sep: The British Second Army launches the offensive from Beeringen [1] Large Allied airborne landings in North Brabant, in the Reich of Nijmegen, and near Arnhem [1] The Dutch government orders a general railway strike [1] The Reichskommissariat is relocated ...
28 November – Allied shipping starts to use the Port of Antwerp. [2]: 857 December. 16 December – German counter-offensive into Belgium: Battle of the Bulge begins with Battle of Lanzerath Ridge, Battle of Losheim Gap, Battle of St. Vith and Battle of Elsenborn Ridge; 17 December – Malmedy massacre
Battle for Antwerp: the liberation of the city and the opening of the Scheldt, 1944. I. Allan. ISBN 9780711007697. Oliver, Dennis (2018). Death Ride of the Panzers: German Armor and the Retreat in the West, 1944–45. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781510720961. Renouf, Tom (2011).
Notes on the Operations of 21 Army Group, 6 June 1944 – 5 May 1945 (pdf) (Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library online ed.). British Army of the Rhine. 2004 [1945]. N13331; Williams, M. P. (22 May 2014). Rough Road to Antwerp: The First Canadian Army's Operations Along the Channel Coast (pdf). Command and General Staff College (CGSC ...