Canada · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
This operation was undertaken by the Polish 1st Armoured Division and the First Canadian Army against the Wehrmachts Army Group B, and it was a part of the largest encirclement on the German Western Front during World War II
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