Great Mistake

On 4 September 1944, the British 11th Armoured Division entered Antwerp, capturing the docks intact with Belgian assistance. It was eighty-five days, however, before the first Allied cargo ship reached the docks on 28 November. In the meantime, some 80,000 soldiers of the German 15th Army slipped across the Scheldt Estuary and escaped towards Germany along the Beveland peninsula. Had 11th Armoured Division immediately sealed off the peninsula where it joined the mainland, the Allies could have e