The Battle of Overloon (Code named "Operation Aintree") took place between September 30th and October 18th 1944. During the battle some 2500 soldiers died making it one of the bloodiest battles in the Netherlands during the Second World War. During World War II, the Western Front was the theater of fighting west of Germany, encompassing France, Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Denmark. ... Combatants Kingdom of the Netherlands Nazi Germany Commanders Henry G. Winkelman, Jan Joseph Godfried baron van Voorst tot Voorst Fedor von Bock (Army Group B) Strength 9 divisions, 676 guns, 1 tank (inoperational), 124 aircraft Total: 350,000 men 22 divisions, 1,378 guns, 759 tanks, 1150 aircraft Total: 750... Combatants United Kingdom, France Germany Commanders Lord Gort Gerd von Rundstedt (Army Group A), Ewald von Kleist (Panzergruppe von Kleist) Strength approx. ... Dieppes chert beach and cliff immediately following the raid on 19 August 1942. ... Combatants United States United Kingdom Canada Free France Poland Nazi Germany Commanders Dwight Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander) Bernard Montgomery (land) Bertram Ramsay (sea) Trafford Leigh-Mallory (air) Gerd von Rundstedt (OB WEST) Erwin Rommel (absent) (Heeresgruppe B) Friedrich Dollmann () Strength 326,000 (by June 11) Unknown, probably some 1,000... Combatants United States1 Free France, United Kingdom Nazi Germany Commanders Jacob L. Devers Johannes Blaskowitz Strength 250,000 (approx) 230,000 (approx) Casualties 4,500 American, 4,500+ French 125,000+ (approx) Monument to the landings of Allied troops under General Patch on the beach of St Tropez, France. ... Combatants United Kingdom United States Poland Nazi Germany Commanders Bernard Montgomery Gerd von Rundstedt Strength XXX Corps, 35,000 airborne 20,000 Casualties 18,000 casualties 13,000 casualties Operation Market Garden (September 17-September 25, 1944) was an Allied military operation in World War II. Its tactical objectives were... Combatants Canada, Britain, Poland Germany Commanders Guy Simonds (acting) (First Canadian Army) Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (German 15th Army) Strength ? ? Casualties 12,873 total; 6,367 Canadian ? The Battle of the Scheldt was a military operation which took place in northern Belgium and south-western Netherlands during the Second World... Combatants United States Nazi Germany Commanders Courtney Hodges Walther Model Strength 120,000 unknown Casualties 33,000 dead and wounded 12,000 dead, wounded and captured The Battle of Hurtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between the American... The Battle of Aachen was a battle in World War II that took place in October 1944 in the small German city of Aachen. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Ardennes: Battle of the bulge Wacht Am Rhein redirects here. ... During World War II, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the Rhine river at Rees, Wesel and south of the Lippe Canal by the British Second Army, under Lieutenant-General Miles C Dempsey, and the US Ninth Army, under Lieutenant-General William H Simpson. ... Operation Varsity was an airborne operation towards the end of World War II, intended to gain a foothold across the River Rhine. ... The Battle of Overloon (Code named Operation Aintree) took place between September 30th and October 18th 1944. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Battle

After Operation Market Garden had failed the Allies were only just able to hold an open corridor to Nijmegen. To strengthen the narrow corridor, the Allied army command wanted to eliminate the German bridgehead near Venlo. To launch an attack on the bridgehead they needed to capture the towns of Overloon and Venray. After a failed attack on Overloon by the U.S. 7th Armored Division the British 3rd Infantry Division had to take over. Suffering heavy losses the allies captured Overloon and moved towards Venray. The march on Venray resulted in heavy losses, especially around the Loobeek River. Despite the fact that both Overloon and eventually Venray were taken by the allies the planned operation to capture the axis bridgehead near Venlo had to be stopped because more troops were needed to capture more essential targets: Antwerp and the Southern Netherlands. Combatants United Kingdom United States Poland Nazi Germany Commanders Bernard Montgomery Gerd von Rundstedt Strength XXX Corps, 35,000 airborne 20,000 Casualties 18,000 casualties 13,000 casualties Operation Market Garden (September 17-September 25, 1944) was an Allied military operation in World War II. Its tactical objectives were... Shoulder sleeve patch of the United States Army 7th Armored Division. ... The British 3rd Infantry Division was part of the ill-fated British Expeditionary Force evacuated from Dunkirk early in World War II. It was the first British division to land at Sword beach on D-Day. ... A bridgehead is literally a military fortification that protects the end of a bridge that is closest to the enemy. ... The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal (Cathedral of our Lady) at the Handschoenmarkt, in the old quarter of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to several triptychs by Baroque painter Rubens. ...

The tanks which were left on the battlefield formed the base of the collection of the National War and Resistance Museum of the Netherlands in Overloon, which opened in 1946. A German Panther tank, a veteran of the battle of Overloon, on exhibition The National War and Resistance Museum of the Netherlands (Dutch: Nationaal Oorlogs- en Verzetsmuseum) is located at Overloon, mun. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Memorial

On the site of the battle a memorial was erected.

Memorial to the battle in Overloon.

The text of the memorial: Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (816x616, 167 KB) Picture from Dutch wikipedia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (816x616, 167 KB) Picture from Dutch wikipedia. ...

Dutch: “STA EEN OGENBLIK STIL bezoeker, en bedenk dat de grond waarop gij vertoeft eens een van felst omstreden sectoren van het slagveld Overloon. Bitter is hier gevochten in man tegen man situaties vele jonge levens, ontsnapt aan de slagvelden van Nettuno en Normandië, vonden onder deze bomen hun einde.”

English: STAND STILL FOR A MOMENT visitor, and think of the fact that the ground you are walking now once was one of the most fiercely contested sectors of the Battle of Overloon. Bitter fights ensued here with face to face combat and many young lives, who escaped the battlefields of Normandy and Nettuno, met their ends under these trees.” Combatants United States United Kingdom Canada Free France Poland Nazi Germany Commanders Dwight Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander) Bernard Montgomery (land) Bertram Ramsay (sea) Trafford Leigh-Mallory (air) Gerd von Rundstedt (OB WEST) Erwin Rommel (absent) (Heeresgruppe B) Friedrich Dollmann () Strength 326,000 (by June 11) Unknown, probably some 1,000... Operation Shingle (January 22, 1944), during the Italian Campaign of World War II, was an Allied amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. ...