The Forgotten Battle — Netherlands
The southern shore of the Scheldt estuary — five weeks of fighting by Canadian forces through flooded polders against the German 64th Division.
The Breskens Pocket was cleared by the Canadian 3rd Division against 12,000 German defenders dug into the dykes and flooded farmland. The battle lasted from October 6 to November 3, 1944. The Battle of the Scheldt is little known outside Canada and the Netherlands — one of the most significant Canadian contributions to the liberation of Western Europe.