Falaise Gap Battles Forty Simon Paperback
Falaise Gap Battles Forty Simon Paperback The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the…
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Falaise Gap Battles Forty Simon Paperback
The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the Seine provided the Allies with an immense victory. As could be expected, the Germans did not simply give up: they fought furiously to keep the pincers from closing. After ten weeks of hard attritional fighting, the Allies had broken loose from the bocage and the Germans' deep defenses around Caen: by the end of September they would be close to the German border.As US First Army and British Second Army squeezed the western and northern edges of the German salient, so Third Army rushed headlong eastwards and then north to create the lower of two pincers--the other formed as the Canadian First Army and the Polish 1st Armored Division pushed south of Caen.
When they did, attacks from inside the pocket to break out and outside the
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