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Destroyed GermanEquipment
Falaise Pocket, Normandy
August 1944
Thisis a nice reproduction of an original WWII photographshowing German equipment destroyed during fighting in the Falaise pocket, August 1944. The camo on the staff car is interesting.
Size of photo is about 5" x 5".
The Falaise Pocket or Battle of the Falaise Pocket(12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. A pocketwas formed around Falaise, Calvados, inwhich the German Army Group B, with the 7th Army and the FifthPanzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe West)were encircled by the Western Allies.The battle is also referred to as the Battle of the Falaise Gap, afterthe corridor which the Germans sought to maintain to allow their escape and issometimes referred to as the Chambois Pocket, the Falaise-Chambois Pocket, theArgentan–Falaise Pocket or the Trun–Chambois Gap. The battle resulted in thedestruction of most of Army Group B west of the Seineriver, which opened the way to Paris and the German border for the Alliedarmies.
Following Operation Cobra,the American breakout from the Normandy beachhead,rapid advances were made to the south and south-east by the Third U.S. Army under the command of General George Patton. Despite lacking the resources todefeat the U.S. breakthrough and simultaneous British and Canadian offensivessouth of Caumont and Caen, Field Marshal Günthervon Kluge, the commander of Army Group B, was not permitted by Adolf Hitler to withdraw but was ordered toconduct a counter-offensive at Mortainagainst the U.S. breakthrough. Four depleted panzerdivisions were not enough to defeat the First U.S.Army. Operation Lüttich was adisaster, which drove the Germans deeper into the Allied envelopment.
On 8 August, the Allied groundforces commander, General Bernard Montgomery,ordered the Allied armies to converge on the Falaise–Chambois area to envelopArmy Group B, the First U.S. Army forming the southern arm, the British Second Army the base and the First Canadian Army the northern arm of theencirclement. The Germans began to withdraw on 17 August and on 19 August, theAllies linked up in Chambois. Gaps were forced in the Allied lines by Germancounter-attacks, the biggest being a corridor forced past the 1st Polish Armoured Division on Hill 262, acommanding position at the mouth of the pocket. By the evening of 21 August,the pocket had been sealed, with c. 50,000 Germans trapped inside. Many Germansescaped but losses in men and equipment were huge. Two days later the Allied Liberation of Paris was completed and on 30August, the remnants of Army Group B retreated across the Seine, which ended Operation Overlord.
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