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The British & Canadian assault on the most heavily fortified section of the Siegfried Line. The operation was complicated when German defenders blew the Ruhr dams, flooding the area downstream and severely limiting offensive operations.

In the north The 6th SS Panzer Army assaulted the Losheim Gap and the Elsenborn Ridge in an effort to break through to Lige. In the center The 5th Panzer Army attacked towards Bastogne and St. Vith. in the South The 7th Army pushed towards Luxembourg.

The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division is forced to fight it's away across the 40 metre wide Walcheren Causeway, a mile-long land bridge from South Beveland to the island. German troops hold the island until the 8th of November.

Initially successful, this massive airborne operation captured several bridges between Eindhoven and Nijmegen. Ground forces were delayed at Son. Without tank support the British at Arnhem were overrun on the 21st. No victory for the allies in 1944.

The allied invasion of southern France was initiated by an amphibious assault by elements of the U.S. Seventh Army, with a follow-up force made up primarily of the French First Army.