In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany , a series of offensive operations were designed Create_artwork to seize and capture Conquering the east and west bank of the Rhine River : Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945 , and Operation Lumberjack and Operation Undertone in March 1945 .

Operation Veritable ( also known as the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Reichswald ) was the northern part of an Allied pincer movement Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start between 8 February and 11 March 1945 during the final Process_end stages of the Second World War .

`` Veritable '' was a Northern pincer movement and started Process_start with XXX Corps advancing Cause_to_make_progress through the forest while the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division , in amphibious vehicles , cleared German positions in the flooded Motion Rhine plain .

On 9 February , the U.S. Ninth Army—operating under Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery 's Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group since the Battle of the Bulge—was to cross Motion_directional the Roer and link Connect up with the Canadian First Army , under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar , coming from the Nijmegen area of the Netherlands in Operation Veritable , which had started Process_start at 05:00 on 8 February .

German forces west of the Rhine during operations Veritable , Blockbuster and Grenade lost Earnings_and_losses 90,000 men , of which more than 50,000 became Becoming prisoners of war ( POW ) .