Operation Flashpoint (March 1945)

Crossing the Rhine (22-28 March 1945)
Map of Allied operations in the lower Rhine from March 24–28.

Operation Flashpoint was the Ninth United States Army part of Operation Plunder, the crossing of the lower Rhine by the 21st Army Group during March 22–28 March 1945, in the last months of World War II, in which the Ninth Army established bridgeheads in the sector between Wesel and Walsum on the right bank of the Rhine.


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