The Falaise pocket or battle of the Falaise pocket was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. Allied forces formed a pocket around Falaise, Calvados, in which Germa
A Cromwell tank and Willys MB 'jeep' passing an abandoned German 8.8 cm PaK 43 anti-tank gun during Totalize
Germans surrendering in St. Lambert on 19 August 1944
Polish infantry moving towards cover on Hill 262, 20 August 1944
German prisoners taken during the battle are given tea by their British captors.
Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II. The
Falaise pocket
…until after Caen's liberation. The Allied armies developed a multi-stage operation, beginning with Operation Goodwood on 18 July, and continuing with Operation Cobra on 25 July, which saw American forces pushing into a gap around Saint-Lô and overwhelming the defending German forces. On 1 August, Lieutenant General…
M4 Sherman tanks and infantrymen of the U.S. 4th Armored Division in Coutances
Overview of relative locations of upcoming Anglo-Canadian operations Goodwood and Atlantic at Caen, drawing German troops and ordnance, and the area of upcoming Operation Cobra at St-Lo
German dispositions, night of 24–25 July 1944
Men of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, part of the 32nd Guards Brigade of the Guards Armoured Division, in action near Cagny, 19 July 1944