Attack on the Scheldt 1944: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944

Historian Joseph Schram will lead our discussion of Attack on the Scheldt 1944, by Graham A. Thomas, a brutal five-week Allied campaign to clear German forces from the Scheldt estuary and unlock the vital port of Antwerp. Led by the First Canadian Army, alongside British and Polish troops, the grueling operation involved fighting through flooded, mud-soaked terrain, culminating in an Allied victory on November 8, 1944. Opening the Antwerp port complex was essential to sustaining the Allied campaign into Germany and achieving final victory.