Antwerp falls but the Scheldt stays shut
1944 · Event
Antwerp's port is captured intact — and useless: the Germans still hold the Scheldt estuary between it and the sea, and clearing them costs the First Canadian Army two months and 13,000 casualties while the Allied advance starves for supplies. The unglamorous campaign that logistics historians call the autumn's real story.
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