'Vampire' was the Canadian crossing of the Rhine river in the area of Emmerich by Major General A. B. Matthews’s 2^nd Division and Major General R. H. Keefler’s 3^rd Division of Lieutenant General G. G. Simonds’s II Corps in General H. D. G. Crerar’s 1^st Army, within the context of 'Plunder' (27/28 March 1945).

The operation was the left-hand component of 'Plunder', and was fought against elements of General Günther Blumentritt’s 1^st Fallschirmarmee of Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz’s Heeresgruppe 'H' as the two divisions crossed the river just downstream of Rees and then diverged as the 2^nd Division headed for Doetinchem in the Netherlands and the 3^rd Division for Emmerich in Germany.