The Battle of Walcheren Causeway (Operation Vitality) was an engagement of the Battle of the Scheldt between the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, elements...
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line and joins Canadian forces advancing on Walcheren Island. Prior to the Battle of Walcheren Causeway, Teuntje is captured while helping Janna escape...
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Netherlands, and again in 1944 in the Battle of Walcheren Causeway, the fourth and final stage of the Battle of the Scheldt. On 3 October 1944 the RAF...
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descriptions of key battles such as Hoogerheide, The Coffin, and the storming of Walcheren Causeway. Canadiansoldiers.com article on the battle, including maps...
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Operation Infatuate (redirect from Battle of Walcheren)
was right for the assault of Walcheren itself. The Allies' failure to take Middelburg after the Battle of Walcheren Causeway was a disappointing prelude...
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Colin Maud (category Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau)
Maud was appointed as the deputy commander of the Flushing assault force, during the Allied attack on Walcheren Island. On 11 December 1945 he was mentioned...
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Sloedam (category Walcheren)
part of the Roosendaal-Vlissingen Railway, the so-called Zeeuwse Lijn (Zealandic Line). Additionally this dam connected the island of Walcheren with Zuid-Beveland...
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5th Field Regiment, RCA (category Field artillery regiments of Canada)
Some of these engagements included an attack on the French village of Ifs outside Caen, the Battle of Verrières Ridge, and the Battle of Walcheren Causeway...
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4th Special Service Brigade (category Special service brigades of the British Army)
subsequently participated in the Battle of the Scheldt and the assault of the Walcheren Islands. On 6 December the same year, the Brigade was renamed 4th Commando...
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Though the infantry attack would eventually be implemented in the Battle of Walcheren Causeway, the airborne landings were ruled out, because Operation Market...
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