Operation Blockbuster

Operation Blockbuster Part of Western Front, World War II Operation Blockbuster (yellow) Date 26th February to 3 March 1945 Location Lower Rhine region Germany Result Allied victory Belligerents  Canada  United Kingdom  Germany Commanders and leaders Harry Crerar Brian Horrocks Alfred Schlemm

v t e Western Allied invasion of Germany Blackcock Veritable Grenade Lumberjack Undertone Amherst Plunder Varsity Ruhr TF Baum Frankfurt South Germany Kassel Heilbronn Nuremberg Archway Hamburg v t e West European Campaign (1944–1945) Overlord Dragoon Paris to the Rhine Channel Coast Market Garden Aachen Hürtgen Forest Scheldt Queen Bulge Blackcock Colmar Pocket Reichswald Invasion of Germany End of World War II in Europe

Operation Blockbuster was the completion of the larger Operation Veritable by the Canadian 1st Army, reinforced by the British XXX Corps. It took place in late February and early March, 1945. Veritable had been slower and more costly than expected and the Canadian commander, Harry Crerar, had decided on a fresh start for the operation.

Three Anglo-Canadian divisions advanced north-westwards, capturing unprepared German positions in the Hochwald forested ridge, before advancing on Xanten. They linked up with the US Ninth Army at Berendonk, near Geldern on March 3.

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• "The Hochwald Gap" at Canadianheroes.org