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rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Operation Varsity
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
skos:prefLabel
  • Operation Varsity
skos:altLabel
  • Germany
  • Rhine
  • Varsity
  • Battle of the Reichswald
  • ''Varsity''
  • River Rhine
  • The Rhine
  • Allied airborne crossing of the Rhine
  • Allied assault across the Rhine
  • First Allied Airborne Army's support for the crossing of the Rhine
  • Op VARSITY
  • Rhine Crossing
  • Rhine crossing
  • River Rhine crossing
  • airborne assault across the Rhine
  • airborne assault over the Rhine
  • airborne attack across the Rhine
  • airborne drop across the Rhine
  • assault across the Rhine
  • crossed the Rhine
  • crossing of the River Rhine
  • final push over the Rhine
  • operation known as \"Varsity\"
  • the crossing the Rhine
clgo:causalties
  • 2,378–2,700 casualtiesref|Ellis puts British 6th Airborne Division losses as 1,400 dead, wounded or captured and places the U.S. 17th Airborne Division losses as 1,300 dead, wounded or captured. The official Parachute Regiment website places 6th Airborne losses at 1,078 killed or wounded.|group=\"Note\"
  • 72 aircraftref|Over 1,700 aircraft were employed during the airlift of the airborne forces, of which 56 planes were lost. A further 240 planes flew a resupply mission following the glider landings, 16 planes were shot down. Of the 1,300 gliders employed during the operation, under 4% were destroyed.|group=\"Note\"
clgo:combatant
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
clgo:commander
clgo:date
  • 1945-03-24
clgo:isPartOfMilitaryConflict
clgo:place
clgo:result
  • Alliedvictory
clgo:strength
  • 8,000 (est.)ref|Otway claims that Allied intelligence placed 7 Parachute Division and 84 Infantry Division at around 4,000 men each after having suffered heavy casualties in previous campaigns, these being the two German formations facing the Allied airborne forces.|group=\"Note\"
  • 16,870ref|6th Airborne landed 7,220 men, 17th Airborne landed 9,650 men.|group=\"Note\"
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