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BATTLE

OF THE

SCHELDT

By: Robin, Emily, Jessica

  • The battle of the Scheldt was the most important

Canadian contributions.This involved the ll Canadian Corps under the Canadian corps army.This corps included the second and third Canadian infantry division and also the fourth Canadian (armored) division. The first Canadian army was given the task of clearing the Sheldt. Each canadian division had different jobs. Some attacked Germany and some maintained a bridgehead.

  • Tactics / strategies used to open the Scheldt estuary were: to first

clear the area north of Antwerp and secure access to South Beveland, second was to clear the Breskens pocket north of the Leopold Canal (a.k.a. Operation Switchback), third was that “Operation Vitality” was the capture of South Beveland, and finally to capture Walcheren Island (a.k.a. Operation Infatuate) which had been reinforced into a powerful German stronghold. Walcheren Island was considered to be the “strongest concentration of defences the Nazis had ever constructed” as part of the Atlantic Wall.

Battle of the Scheldt

  • The overall significance of this battle was the victory for the Allies.

By the end of the five week offensive, there were 41,043 German

prisoners. Because of this, a stream of supplies were brought into the continent and began re-energizing the stalled Allied advance from Paris to Rhine. The allies had a deep water port which the Germans soon recognized and tried to destroy it or disrupt the flow of supplies.The port was so strategically vital that one of the German objectives was to retake the city and its port.

Allied victory;

Antwerp opens to Allied shipping

Allied Casualties:

Canadian: 6,367

Total: 12,873

Germany Casualties:

Roughly 10-12,000

Captured: 41,043

German warfare :

• artillery

• snipers

• mines

• V-2 rockets

Canadian Warfare:

• flame throwers

• specialized armoured vehicles, ex. Amphibious transports, mine-clearing tanks, bulldozers

• tanks

• naval mines

• air force

  • The major participants of the battle of the

Scheldt were: Canada, United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, and Poland all vs. Germany.

  • The objective of the battle was to clear the

Schledt. This task was given to the Canadian 1st Army (who were under temporary command of Lieutenant-General Simonds.

  • The battle occurred in northern Belgium and

south-western Netherlands

  • The battle took place during World War 2

from October 2nd to November 8th, 1944

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