Editing Siegfried Line campaign (section)

{{short description|Action in European theatre of WWII}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}
{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict          = Siegfried Line campaign
| partof            = the [[Western Front (World War II)|Western Front]] of [[World War II]]
| image             = Americans cross Siegfried Line.jpg
| image_size        = 
| caption           = [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] troops cross the [[Siegfried Line]].
| date              = 28 August 1944 – 16 December 1944
| place             = Along and around the [[Siegfried Line]] (Northern [[France]], [[Belgium]], [[Luxembourg]], the [[Netherlands]], and the [[Rhine river]])
| result            = Allied victory
| combatant1        = {{Plain list|
* '''[[Allies of World War II|Allies]]'''
* {{flag|United States|1912}}
* {{flag|United Kingdom}}
* {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[Provisional Government of the French Republic|France]]
* {{flag|Canada|1921}}
* {{flagdeco|Poland|1928}} [[Polish Armed Forces in the West|Poland]]
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Belgium.svg}} [[Belgium]]
* {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[Czechoslovak government-in-exile|Czechoslovakia]]
* {{flag|Netherlands}}
* {{flag|Norway}}
}}
| combatant2        = {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}}
| commander1        = {{Plain list|
* {{nowrap|{{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]}} <small>([[Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force|SHAEF]])</small>
* {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Bernard Montgomery]] <small>([[21st Army Group]])</small>
* {{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Omar Bradley]] <small>([[Twelfth United States Army Group|12th Army Group]])</small>
}}
| commander2        = {{Plain list|
* {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Gerd von Rundstedt]] <small>([[OB West|Oberbefehlshaber West]])</small>
* {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Walter Model]] <small>([[Army Group B]])</small>
}}
| strength1         = * 3,250,000 (80 divisions) 
* 7,700 tanks
* 13,000 aircraft 
* 43,110 artillery pieces and mortars 
* 800,000 vehicles<ref name="MacDonald, C 2005">MacDonald, C. (2005), ''The Last Offensive: The European Theater of Operations''. University Press of the Pacific, p. 322.</ref>
| strength2         = * 1,699,000  (74 divisions) 
* 3,200 tanks
* 3,110 aircraft
* 8,000 artillery pieces and mortars 
* 300,000 vehicles
{{Citation   needed|date=March 2011}}
| casualties1       = {{Plain list|
* {{flagicon|United States|1912}}:
* 240,082 casualties
* (50,410 killed
* 172,450 wounded
* 24,374 captured or missing)
* <small>(15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945)</small>
*{{flagicon|United Kingdom}}:
* 32,366
*{{flagicon| France}}:
* 15,390–17,390<ref>De Lattre, p. 398</ref>
*{{flag|Canada|1921}}:
* 15,000
* '''Total''': 272,448+ casualties <ref>{{cite book|author1=US Adjutant General|title=Army battle casualties and nonbattle deaths in World War II |date=1953|page=93|url=http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p4013coll8/id/130|access-date=29 June 2017|archive-date=24 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324093230/http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p4013coll8/id/130|url-status=dead}}</ref>
}}
| casualties2       = {{Plain list|
* {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}}:
* 40,000-70,000+ killed{{efn|Germans killed in action could reach up to well over 70,000 from September 1944 to March 1945 according to the German military historian Rudiger Overmans, who claims that the total figure of German KIA on the Western Front until December 31, 1944 is around 339,957. He has written one of the most detailed and comprehensive works on German casualties in World War II.}}
* 80,000 wounded
* 280,000+ captured
* '''Total''':
* 400,000+ casualties<ref>Zaloga, Steve, and Dennis, Peter (2006). ''Remagen 1945: Endgame against the Third Reich''. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. {{ISBN|1-84603-249-0}}. p. 88.</ref>
}}
| campaignbox       = {{Campaignbox Western Front (World War II)}}
{{Campaignbox Western Europe (1944-1945)}}
{{Campaignbox Siegfried Line}}
}}

The '''Siegfried Line campaign''' was a phase in the [[Western Front (World War II)#1944–1945: The Second Front|Western European campaign]] of [[World War II]], which involved engagments near the German defensive [[Siegfried Line]].

This campaign spanned from the end of [[Operation Overlord]] and the push across northern France, which ended on 15 September 1944, and concluded with the opening of the German Ardennes counteroffensive, better known as the [[Battle of the Bulge]].