Essay on the Battle of Scheldt (the battle of dykes)?

Question

For some reason I'm having trouble finding resources on the Battle of Scheldt (already tried various websites wiki, elibrary)
Please does any know anything about it?

Answer 1

after the battle for Arnhem = market garden ( a Bridge to far ) the battle for liberating the Schelde estuary.
This was fought mainly by the 1ste Canadian army together by the 1ste Polish armored div and the 49 and 52 British div.
The difficulty's they faced where that this part of Belgium and nederland was very easy to inundate and also there where many canals to cross so not a country where you can use a lot of armour
First they had to eliminate the breskens pocket to clear the left side of the Schelde. This was done by crossing the mud plains of the braakman by buffalo's the only vehicle that could cross this mud fields. Also clear the right bank witch also Incorporated the island of Walcheren. This was only connected to the main land by one dike ( the sloedam ) very heavenly defended. In fact the island was a part of the Atlantic wall and so it blocked the entire entrance to the schelde. The only possibility was to bomb the dykes around the island and create so a new beach where it was possible to do a naval assault inside the perimeter of the German defense

best is to do a search with the names of the operations like
operation vitality, switchback ,infatuate or the place names like sloedam, walcheren, bresken, south beveland, leopold canal etc

Answer 2

This was a task that Montgomery allocated to the Canadian forces in October 1944 under General Crerand.
The task involved clearing three distinct areas, Breskens,the South Breveland Peninsula and Walcheren Island.
These objectives were all attained by1 November by a combination of infantry assaults across the canals and dykes with the soldiers sometimes fighting waist deep in freezing water and a seaborne assault from south of the Scheldt estuary which took Walcheren Island.
The object of the exercise was to open up the port of Antwerp to allied shipping so that 21 Army Group could shorten its lines of communication instead of having to be supplied from the French ports hundreds of miles away.

Answer 3

try Canadian military history