campaign, notable, interwar and Second World War
Operation Grenade
Operation Grenade was a campaign fought in 1945 at Rhineland, in what is now Germany. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Rhineland. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: American victory. Recorded strength: 380,000; 1,400 tanks; 2,070 guns; 375 aircraft against 54,000; 180 tanks.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1945 (year precision) to 1945 | |
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| Place | Rhineland, Germany 50.277N, 6.861E | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 380,000; 1,400 tanks; 2,070 guns; 375 aircraft | 54,000; 180 tanks |
| Casualties and losses | 1,330 killed; Total: 7,478 | 29,739 captured; 16,000 other casualties (US estimate); Total: 45,739 |
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Nearest engagements
- Battle of Lanzerath Ridge 1944, 39 km W
- Siege of Trarbach 1734, 41 km SE
- Battle of Andernach AD 876, 43 km NE
- Battle of Remagen 1945, 43 km NE
- Operation Lumberjack 1945, 43 km NE
In the same war
- Before: Luftangriff auf Wallhausen 1945
- After: Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II 1945
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1945
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
- Battle of Iwo Jima Japan
- Battle of Okinawa Japan
- Soviet invasion of Manchuria China
- Soviet–Japanese War Russia
Operation Grenade is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 668 in present-day Germany.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q1635355, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Grenade, revision 1370632835, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.