Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/dboSms Operation Plunder The British and Canadian Operations By: Tim Saunders Publisher: Pen & Sword Military (ORIM) Print ISBN: 9781844152216, 1844152219 eText ISBN: 9781783460793, 1783460792 Format: EPUB Available from $ 9.99 USD SKU 9781783460793 By late March 1945, Second British Army and Ninth US Army were poised to carry out an assault crossing of the Rhine. In the British part of the operations, Montgomerys best assault divisions were assembled to carry out the British and Canadian part of the attack between Emmerich and Wesel.A commando brigade and two Scottish divisions carried out the initial assault under cover of darkness and a tremendous bombardment on the evening of 23rd March. Despite the best efforts of the German first Parachute Army they had established a bridgehead by dawn. During the following morning 6th British Airborne Division dropped around Hamminkeln, in the immediate rear of the Germans, in an operation codenamed VARSITY.By 27 March, after some heavy combat, the Allies were prepared to launch their final drive to the Baltic. The Rhine crossing, though by no means the final battle, sealed the fate of Nazi Germany.
