✦ History

Part of World War II

Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine

August 25, 1944 – March 7, 1945 · Northeastern France

Result Allied victory

The Western Allies' advance from the liberation of Paris to the Rhine, through the pursuit across France and Belgium, Market Garden, the Siegfried Line battles, the Ardennes and the clearing of the west bank.

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Allies

Axis

United States
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Norway
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Czechoslovakia
Poland
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower belligerent leader Omar Bradley military commander Bernard Montgomery belligerent leader
Gerd von Rundstedt military commander Walter Model military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
3,250,000
Casualties
272,448
Tanks
7,700
Aircraft
13,000
Vehicles
800,000

United States Casualties 240,082 · Wounded 172,450

United Kingdom Casualties 32,366

France Casualties 15,390–17,390

Canada Casualties 15,000

Units

12th Army Group Ninth Army (United States) US Third Army 21st Army Group First Canadian Army 6th Army Group Seventh United States Army 1st Army (France) 75th Innovation Command 80th Training Command 84th Training Command Fifteenth United States Army First Army (United States) VII Corps (United States) 82nd Airborne Division 90th Infantry Division (United States) 100th Training Division 102nd Training Division 103rd Infantry Division (United States) 104th Training Division 106th Infantry Division (United States) 10th Armored Division (United States) 11th Armored Division (United States) 12th Armored Division (United States) 13th Armored Division (United States) 14th Armored Division (United States) 17th Airborne Division 26th Infantry Division (United States) 28th Infantry Division (United States) 29th Infantry Division (United States) Also under V Corps (United States) 2nd Canadian Division 30th Infantry Division (United States) 35th Infantry Division (United States) 36th Infantry Division (United States) 42nd Infantry Division (United States) 44th Infantry Division (United States) 45th Infantry Division (United States) 5th Armored Division (United States) 5th Infantry Division (United States) 63rd Readiness Division 65th Infantry Division (United States) 69th Infantry Division (United States) 6th Armored Division (United States) 70th Infantry Division (United States) 71st Infantry Division (United States) 78th Training Division 79th Armoured Division 79th Infantry Division (United States) 7th Armored Division (United States) 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) 83rd Infantry Division (United States) 87th Infantry Division (United States) 89th Infantry Division (United States) 94th Training Division 95th Training Division 99th Readiness Division 9th Infantry Division (United States) US 1st Division US 3rd Division 173rd Airborne Brigade 16th Infantry Regiment (United States) 18th Infantry Regiment (United States) 41st Infantry Regiment (United States) 442nd Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Regiment (United States) 612th Tank Destroyer Battalion
15th Army (Wehrmacht) 116th Panzer Division 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS 553rd Volksgrenadier Division 559th Volksgrenadier Division 6th SS Mountain Division Nord

Battles 3