Word: terneuzen
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Pocket Amphibians. But progress this way was slowed by bitter resistance. Another Canadian force knifed through the German pocket at its weakest point, and bisected it, reaching the Scheldt at Terneuzen. The design was to jump off from Terneuzen and land among the Germans downstream, creating a bridgehead within a bridgehead. Amphibious equipment could not be brought up the river, under the guns of German batteries at Breskens and Flushing, and had to be improvised on the spot...
...second amphibious operation was launched from Terneuzen to the west side of the Savojaards Inlet. The force landed there drove south, and joined up with still other units advancing from the south along the west side of the inlet. Slowly and inexorably the Nazi pocket was being cut into tiny patches...
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