Operation Goldflake - March 1945

Onder de geheime Operation Goldflake werd de gehele 1st Canadian Corps (1st Canadian Infantry Division) overgebracht van het front in Italië naar het front in Nederland. Eind maart was deze gehele operatie afgerond, een top presentatie!

In January a decision had been reached to transfer the entire 1st Canadian Corps, 1st Infantry Division included, to the Netherlands. By the end of March, 1945 all Canadian Army units serving with Allied Forces Mediterranean had been transferred and Operation Goldflake, the reunion of 1st Infantry and 1st Armoured Brigade and First Canadian Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar, accomplished.

Source: Library and Archives Canada