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2. The Forgotten Battle - Wikipedia

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   The Forgotten Battle (Dutch: De Slag om de Schelde) is a 2020 Dutch war drama film 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 glider pilot played by Jamie Flatters, and a resistance woman from Zeeland played by Susan Radder.

3. Battle of the Scheldt - Wikipedia

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   Battle for Antwerp. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0711007691. Whitaker, Denis; Whitaker, Shelagh (1984). Tug of War: Allied Command & the Story Behind the Battle of the Scheldt. New York: Beaufort Books. ISBN 0-8253-0257-9. Zuelhlke, Mark (2007). Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, September 13 – November 6, 1944 ...

4. Operation Infatuate - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Siege of Bastogne - Wikipedia

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   The siege of Bastogne (French pronunciation: ⓘ) was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp.

6. Clearing the Channel Coast - Wikipedia

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   Clearing the Channel Coast was a World War II task undertaken by the First Canadian Army in August 1944, following the Allied Operation Overlord and the victory, break-out and pursuit from Normandy. The Canadian army advanced from Normandy to the Scheldt river in Belgium.

7. Operation Market Garden - Wikipedia

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   Neither Eisenhower nor Montgomery initially made opening the port of Antwerp a top priority and Antwerp was not used by allied supply ships until 28 November after the Battle of the Scheldt. The allied failure to win access quickly to the port of Antwerp has been called "one of the greatest tactical mistakes of the war".

8. Liberation of Belgium - Wikipedia

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   In the following days and weeks, the Battle of the Scheldt claimed many lives, as the port of Antwerp could not be operated effectively without control of the Scheldt estuary. [8] Antwerp was the first port to be captured by the Allies in near perfect condition, making it very valuable, especially with its deep water facilities.

9. Cinema Rex bombing - Wikipedia

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   It opened in 1935 and was designed by Leon Stynen, a Belgian architect, modeled after large American movie theatres. [1] On 16 December 1944 (the first day of the Ardennes Offensive), at 15:20, a V-2 rocket fired from The Netherlands (Hellendoorn) by the SS Werfer Battery 500 directly landed on the roof of the cinema during a showing of The ...