OPERATION VARSITY

Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany • March 23, 1945 In the aftermath of Oper­a­tion Mar­ket Gar­den, the inven­tive but failed Septem­ber 1944 thrust into Adolf Hitler’s Germany, came Opera­tion Plun­der, another offen­sive con­ceived by British Field Marshal Bernard Law Mont­gomery. (Oper­a­tion Plunder was the over­all name for Mont­gomery’s 21st Army Group’s crossing the Rhine, but each of…