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Title
Bridgehead on the Rhine
Description
During the night of March 23rd, the Allied 21st Army Group began the long awaited Rhine crossing. The first division to cross was the British 51 st Highland Division mounted in Buffaloes of the 4th Royal Tanks and Northamptonshire Yeomanry …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1945-03-24
Scenario#
42
Scenario Description
During the night of March 23rd, the Allied 21st Army Group began the long awaited Rhine crossing. The first division to cross was the British 51 st Highland Division mounted in Buffaloes of the 4th Royal Tanks and Northamptonshire Yeomanry of the special 79th Armored Division. Among the first units to land was the 1st Black Watch of the 154th Brigade. Its first objective was the village of Speldrop to the north of their initial landing area near the town of Rees. Little opposition was encountered at the outset and the Black Watch was able to move swiftly into the outskirts. But when they tried to clear the village, the defenders launched a counterattack cutting the unit off from the rest of the Brigade. To relieve the now surrounded Black Watch and secure the remainder of the village, an attack was formulated with armor support supplied by DD tanks from the 79th Armored Division.
Location
Speldrop, Germany
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Plunder was a military operation to cross the Rhine on the night of 23 March 1945, launched by the 2ist Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The crossing of the river was at Rees, Wesel, and south of the river Lippe by the British Second Army under Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey, and the United States Ninth Army under Lieutenant General William H. Simpson.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
American

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