Basic Overview
Date: 10 May 1940
Scope: Minor
Nature: Land, Amphibious
Status: Implemented
Scope: Minor
Nature: Land, Amphibious
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Netherlands
Nations Involved
- Greece
- Netherlands
Operation Details
'Rheinschiff' was a German attempt to use commercial vessels operating on the Rhine river for the clandestine transport of troops down the river for a coup-de-main attack on the bridge over the Waal river, a distributary of the Rhine river, at Nijmegen in the Netherlands within 'Gelb' (10 May 1940).
,The undertaking was stymied by the alertness of Dutch customs officials.
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