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Crossing the Rhine (22-28 March 1945)

v t e Western Allied invasion of Germany
Blackcock Rhineland Veritable Grenade Blockbuster Plunder Flashpoint Varsity Archway Lumberjack Remagen Cologne Gisela Undertone Aschaffenburg TF Baum Frankfurt Ruhr Paderborn Würzburg Kassel Heilbronn Howard Dortmund Friesoythe Nuremberg Lippach Düsseldorf Stuttgart Hamburg Itter Castle Logistics American British

Map of Allied operations in the lower Rhine from March 24–28

Operation Flashpoint was the Ninth United States Army part of Operation Plunder, the crossing of the lower Rhine by the 21st Army Group during March 22–28 March 1945, in the last months of World War II, in which the Ninth Army established bridgeheads in the sector between Wesel and Walsum on the right bank of the Rhine.