50 Cents - Charles III Battle of the Scheldt

The Battle of the Scheldt, fought October–November 1944, was one of the most strategically consequential — and most overlooked — Allied operations of the Northwest European campaign. With Antwerp's port captured intact in early September, the Allies held one of the largest harbors in the world but couldn't use it: German forces controlled the Scheldt Estuary, and without clearing them, supply lines remained strangled by the logistics crisis that had already stalled the advance into Germany. The operation fell primarily to Canadian forces, fighting through flooded polders and fortified islands under brutal autumn conditions.

Over 6,000 Allied casualties to open eighty miles of river channel.