First Canadian Army

Army · Canada · April 6, 1942 – July 30, 1945 · 251,000 strong

Canadian-led army under Harry Crerar that closed the Falaise pocket, took the Channel ports, cleared the Scheldt and liberated the northern Netherlands.

View on map Fought in Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine Wikipedia

Strength and losses

Nominal Strength: 251,000

Movements

June 6 – August 6, 1944 Battle for Caen
July 23, 1944 Operation Overlord Takes over the Caen sector Map
August 12–21, 1944 Falaise pocket
August 16, 1944 Falaise taken; the gap closes at Chambois Map
September 1944 – November 1944 Clearing the Channel Coast
September 22, 1944 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine Boulogne and Calais taken Map
October 2, 1944 – November 8, 1944 Battle of the Scheldt Map
November 8, 1944 The Scheldt cleared; Walcheren Map
February 8, 1945 Reichswald (Operation Veritable) Map
April 16, 1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany Groningen; the northern Netherlands freed Map
May 5, 1945 – July 30, 1945 German surrender at Wageningen Map