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Operation Plunder was an invasion across the Rhine on March 23, 1945. This maybe anachronistic as not even the Normandy operation was completed by this time.
Plans for the raid appear to be on a map in Return for Castle Wolfenstein witch includes dates like 23 Mar, and 24 Mar, and what also looks like time stamps. 232200 Mar and 240200 Mar (23 Mar, 10:00 p.m., and 24 Mar, 2 A.M. )
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Beginning on the night of March 23, 1945 the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery launched Operation Plunder, as a part of a coordinated set of Rhine crossings. The crossing of the river Rhine was at Rees, Wesel, and south of the river Lippe by the British Second Army, under Lieutenant General Sir Miles C. Dempsey (Operations Turnscrew, Widgeon, and Torchlight), and the United States Ninth Army (Operation Flashpoint), under Lieutenant General William H. Simpson. The First Allied Airborne Army conducted Operation Varsity airborne landings on the east bank of the Rhine in support of Operation Plunder, consisting of U.S. XVIII Airborne Corps, the British 6th and the U.S. 17th Airborne Divisions.