In the effect of a pincer maneuver Military_operation some 160 kilometres behind the front line , the Polish Army was able to seize Conquering the strategically important town of Korosten .

A northern pincer invaded Attack Portugal from Galicia crossing Motion_directional the Douro and threatening Warning Porto while the southern force crossed Motion_directional the border from Ciudad Rodrigo and preceded Process_start towards the major Portuguese fortification of Almeida .

The operation was expanded Expansion to include I Corps for a pincer attack on Caen .

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 .

This delayed Change_event_time the US offensive Operation Grenade , the southern pincer and at the same time allowed Preventing_or_letting German forces Military_operation under local German commander , Alfred Schlemm to be concentrated Aiming against the Commonwealth advance Motion .

It called Request for a pincer attack Attack near Leningrad , to build Building on the success of Operation Iskra and completely lift the Siege Besieging of Leningrad , encircling Besieging a substantial part of the German 18th Army .

The offensive Attack near the town of Krasny Bor , formed Cause_to_amalgamate the western arm of the pincer .

Supreme Commander General Eisenhower 's strategic goal was to encircle Besieging the heart of German industry , the Ruhr Area , in a pincer movement .

The northern end of the pincer would circumvent the northern end of the Siegfried Line , giving Giving easier access Getting into Germany across the north German plains enabling Preventing_or_letting mobile warfare .

The prime aim of Operation Market Garden was to establish Creating the northern end of a pincer ready to project deeper into Germany .

Allied forces would project north from Belgium , through the Netherlands , across the Rhine and consolidate Cause_change_of_strength north of Arnhem on the Dutch/German border , ready GetReady to close Openness the pincer .