Operation Switchback

Antwerp had fallen unharmed into Allied hands All that prevented the use of the port was the German flak and artillery that lined the narrow waterway linking the North Sea to Antwerp: the Scheldt Estuary. Hitler assigned General Eberding as Fortress Commander of the estuary's south shore. OKW permitted flooding …

1944-10-06

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Antwerp had fallen unharmed into Allied hands All that prevented the use of the port was the German flak and artillery that lined the narrow waterway linking the North Sea to Antwerp: the Scheldt Estuary. Hitler assigned General Eberding as Fortress Commander of the estuary's south shore. OKW permitted flooding of much of the subsealevel terrain and gave Eberding the 64th Infantry Division, totally composed of Russian front combat veterans and heavily armed with support weapons. The Canadian First Army had twice tried to cross the Leopold Canal and reach the Scheldt, and twice had been rebuffed. Today the Canadians would try again

Leopold Canal, Holland

The Battle of the Scheldt in World War II was a series of military operations led by the First Canadian Army, with Canadian, Polish and British units attached, to open up the shipping route to Antwerp so that its port could be used to supply the Allies in north-west Europe. Under acting command of the First Canadian's Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds, the battle took place in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands from October 2 to November 8, 1944.

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Scenario Type = Standard