![]() ![]() The projected Allied advance across the Rhine, coordinated by General Dwight D. Only one major obstacle stood in the path of their advance: the Rhine River. By late January 1945, U.S forces, with their British, Canadian, and French allies, had regained the territory lost in December and resumed their drive eastward to defeat Hitler’s Third Reich. ![]() Although the resulting Battle of the Bulge had initially sent them reeling, the Allies blunted the German assaults and counterattacked after Christmas. The Germans, however, launched Operation Wacht am Rhein, an unanticipated armored offensive in the Ardennes on 16 December 1944. With the successful amphibious landings in France in 1944, Operation Overlord in Normandy and Operation Dragoon in southern France, and the continued advances that liberated German-held territory with Operation Cobra and Operation Market Garden, the western Allies seemed poised to drive into Germany and end the war early in 1945. ![]()
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