Operation Details

Eruption (ii)

'Eruption' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army to effect the seizure of Kiel and the Kiel Canal in northern Germany with airborne drops by Major General E. L. Bols’s British 6th Airborne Division and Major General James M. Gavin’s US 82nd Airborne Division (spring 1945).

Basic Overview

Start date: 30 November 1944
End date: 8 May 1945
Scope: Minor
Nature: Land, Airborne
Status: Planned

Theater

  • Germany & German waters

Nations Involved

Protagonists
  • UK
  • USA
Antagonists
  • Germany

Leadership

Protagonists
  • Bols, E. L.
  • Brereton, Lewis H.
  • Gavin, James M.

Formation

Protagonists
  • Allied 1st Airborne Army British 6th Airborne Division US 82nd Airborne Division

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