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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 ...
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 ...
World War II: Northwest Europe 1944–1945. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. ISBN 9781435891296. Koskodan, Kenneth K (2011). No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781780962221. Moulton, James Louis (1978). Battle for Antwerp: the liberation of the city and the opening of the Scheldt ...
The Liberation of Belgium from German occupation began on 2 September 1944 when Allied forces entered the province of Hainaut [1] and was completed on 4 February 1945 with the liberation of the village of Krewinkel. [2] The liberation came after four years of German-occupied rule.
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:
2–5 January – Battle of Bure fought. 11 January – Socialists leave the government. [2]: 861 16 January – Wildcat strike in the Port of Antwerp over payment of danger money. [2]: 861 25 January – Battle of the Bulge ends. February. 4 February – Liberation of Belgium complete. 7 February – Hubert Pierlot's government resigns. [2]: 861
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. [16] It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg.