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Operation Plunder

1945 operation, part of a coordinated set of Rhine crossings during WWII

Eventmilitary operationQ697403

Date: March 1945
Started: March 23, 1945
Ended: March 24, 1945
Location: North Rhine-Westphalia
Country: Germany
Participant: United Kingdom
, Canada
, United States
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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 Montgomery. The crossing of the river was at Rees, Wesel, and south of the river Lippe by the British Second Army under Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey, and the United States Ninth Army under Lieutenant General William H. Simpson.

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Part of: Western Allied invasion of Germany
Members / parts: Operation Widgeon

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