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  • Thumbnail for Operation Plunder
    Operation Plunder was a military operation to cross the Rhine on the night of 23 March 1945, launched by the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard...
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    Operation Rheinübung ("Exercise Rhine") was the last sortie into the Atlantic by the new German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 18–27...
    25 KB (3,373 words) - 21:42, 28 March 2024
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    Operation Pegasus was a military operation carried out on the Lower Rhine near the village of Renkum, close to Arnhem in the Netherlands. Overnight on...
    21 KB (2,622 words) - 11:04, 11 May 2024
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    land on a British drop zone instead. Still, the operation was a success: both divisions captured Rhine bridges and secured towns that could have been used...
    56 KB (6,723 words) - 21:55, 16 June 2024
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    The Rhine (/raɪn/ RYNE) is one of the major European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms...
    94 KB (10,713 words) - 18:14, 17 June 2024
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    the flooded Rhine plain. The Allied advance proceeded more slowly than expected and at greater cost as the American southern pincer, Operation Grenade, was...
    28 KB (3,347 words) - 03:10, 2 June 2024
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    Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. This was to be achieved by two sub-operations: seizing nine bridges...
    168 KB (23,020 words) - 23:45, 8 June 2024
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    The Rhine Province (German: Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost...
    25 KB (3,040 words) - 10:30, 7 May 2024
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    The Rhine Falls (German: Rheinfall [ˈʁaɪnfal] , a singular noun) is a waterfall located in Switzerland and the most powerful waterfall in Europe. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Operation Lumberjack
    Operation Lumberjack was a military operation with the goal of capturing the west bank of the Rhine River and seizing key German cities, near the end...
    20 KB (2,135 words) - 21:33, 16 June 2024
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    North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, pronounced [ˌnɔʁtʁaɪn vɛstˈfaːlən] ; Limburgish: Noordrien-Wesfale [ˈnoːʀtʀiːn...
    68 KB (5,623 words) - 05:11, 25 May 2024
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    code name for the offensive was Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ('Operation Watch on the Rhine'), after the German patriotic hymn Die Wacht am Rhein, a name...
    169 KB (19,691 words) - 22:46, 6 June 2024
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    attack. In Operation Plunder he crossed the Rhine at Rees and Wesel on the night of 23/24 March, including the largest single drop airborne operation in history...
    40 KB (4,901 words) - 05:20, 30 April 2024
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    Over-the-Rhine, also known as "Cincinnati's Rhineland", and the "Rhineland of America", is a German cultural district of Cincinnati, Ohio. Over-the-Rhine is...
    38 KB (3,671 words) - 11:27, 25 May 2024
  • territory north of the Lower Rhine in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in the Second World War. The aim of the operation was to withdraw safely...
    13 KB (1,565 words) - 19:57, 21 May 2024
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    The Rhine. P. 527 Grandes Unités Françaises, Vol. V-III, p. 801 Clarke, Jeffrey (1993). U.S. Army in World War II European Theater of Operations: Riviera...
    15 KB (1,181 words) - 04:57, 2 June 2024
  • Battleship Bismarck: Operation Rhine - May 1941 is a 1987 video game published by General Quarters Software. Battleship Bismarck is a game in which one...
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    Western Allied invasion of Germany (category World War II operations and battles of the Western European Theatre)
    of the Rhine, a series of offensive operations were designed to seize and capture its east and west banks: Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade...
    88 KB (11,817 words) - 23:26, 2 May 2024
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    then, other Allied forces were also close to the Rhine. German forces west of the Rhine during operations Veritable, Blockbuster and Grenade lost 90,000...
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    minelaying in the vicinity, caused them to miss Unternehmen Rheinübung (Operation Rhine Exercise). The sortie by Bismarck and Prinz Eugen into the North Atlantic...
    85 KB (11,355 words) - 23:28, 28 May 2024
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