By Tim Saunders
Operation Plunder used to be the general identify for twenty first military teams crossing of the Rhine yet all of the significant components was once recognized through its personal codeword, TURNSCREW and TORCHLIGHT, the British attack river crossing WIDGEON, FLASHLIGHT, the crossing via XVI US Corps.Operation Plunder joins over a hundred formerly released titles within the acclaimed Battleground sequence. those good written and hugely illustrated consultant books not just convey the battlefields alive for viewers, in addition they entertain readers at domestic.
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Considerable data was made available from a wide variety of sources, regarding the Rhine’s flood plain, the flood dykes, the approaches to the river banks, the average water level and sundry other detail necessary to prepare a plan. A short summary of this information is taken from the Second Army post operational report. The Emmerich-Wesel area lies east of the Rhine Plain, which is a five to ten miles wide, flat and rather featureless area. Water meadows extend on both sides of the river and the land closely resembles the Dutch Polder areas.
The discomfort of living in the field more than made up for escaping from the boredom of routine RAF shift work on an air station in the middle of nowhere. Southam was lucky, he was posted direct to a battalion but others, usually less enthusiastic about their transformation to the dangers and discomforts of life as an infantryman, suffered the misfortune of having to wait in the uninspiring environment of a battle casualty replacement unit. Also joining the order of battle for the coming Rhine Crossing was 6th Airborne Division.
In what was to become the right assault sector of Second British Army, Schlemm had deployed General Straube’s LXXXVI Korps centred on Wesel, with 84th and 180th Divisions under command. Schlemm’s armoured reserve, XLVII Panzer Korps, was located fifteen miles to the north east of Emmerich. 116th Panzer Division was assessed by allied intelligence on 22 March, as having up to seventy tanks, while 15th Panzer Grenadiers was believed to hold fifteen panzers and twenty to thirty assault guns. The divisions directly facing the British assault were 8th Fallschirmjäger and 84th Infantry Division.