Siegfried Line campaign

Siegfried Line campaign
Part of the Western Front of World War II

U.S. Army troops cross the Siegfried Line.
Date28 August 1944 – 21 March 1945
Location
Along and around the Siegfried Line (Northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and the Rhine river)
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
  Germany
Commanders and leaders
Strength
  • 3,250,000 (80 divisions)
  • 7.700 tanks
  • 13.000 aircraft
  • 43.110 artillery pieces and mortars
  • 800.000 vehicles[1]
  • 1,699,000 (74 divisions)
  • 3.200 tanks
  • 3.110 aircraft
  • 8.000 artillery pieces and mortars
  • 300.000 vehicles[citation needed]
    • Casualties and losses
    • American:
    • 240,082 casualties
    • (50,410 killed
    • 172,450 wounded
    • 24,374 captured or missing)
    • (15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945)
    • British:
    • 32,366
    • French:
    • 15,390–17,390[2]
    • Canadian:
    • 15,000
    • Total: 272,448+ casualties [3]
    • 40,000+ killed[a]
    • 80,000 wounded
    • 280,000+ captured
    • Total:
    • 400,000+ casualties[4]

    The Siegfried Line campaign was a phase in the Western European campaign of World War II, which involved actions near the German defensive Siegfried Line.

    This phase spanned from the end of the Battle of Normandy, or Operation Overlord and the pursuit across northern France, which ended on 15 September 1944, and concluded with the opening of the German Ardennes counteroffensive, better known as the Battle of the Bulge.

    1. ^ MacDonald, C. (2005), The Last Offensive: The European Theater of Operations. University Press of the Pacific, p. 322.
    2. ^ De Lattre, p. 398
    3. ^ US Adjutant General (1953). Army battle casualties and nonbattle deaths in World War II. p. 93. Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
    4. ^ Zaloga, Steve, and Dennis, Peter (2006). Remagen 1945: Endgame against the Third Reich. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84603-249-0. p. 88.


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