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- Falaise_Pocket abstract "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 pocket was formed around Falaise, Calvados, in which the German Army Group B, with the 7th Army and the Fifth Panzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe West) were encircled by the Western Allies. The battle is also referred to as the Battle of the Falaise Gap, after the corridor which the Germans sought to maintain to allow their escape and is sometimes referred to as the Chambois Pocket, the Falaise-Chambois Pocket, the Argentan–Falaise Pocket or the Trun–Chambois Gap. The battle resulted in the destruction of most of Army Group B west of the Seine river, which opened the way to Paris and the German border for the Allied armies.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 to defeat the U.S. breakthrough and simultaneous British and Canadian offensives south of Caumont and Caen, Field Marshal Günther von Kluge, the commander of Army Group B, was not permitted by Adolf Hitler to withdraw but was ordered to conduct a counter-offensive at Mortain against the U.S. breakthrough. Four depleted panzer divisions were not enough to defeat the First U.S. Army. Operation Lüttich was a disaster, which drove the Germans deeper into the Allied envelopment.On 8 August, the Allied ground forces commander, General Bernard Montgomery, ordered the Allied armies to converge on the Falaise–Chambois area to envelop Army 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 the encirclement. The Germans began to withdraw on 17 August and on 19 August, the Allies linked up in Chambois. Gaps were forced in the Allied lines by German counter-attacks, the biggest being a corridor forced past the 1st Polish Armoured Division on Hill 262, a commanding 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 Germans escaped but losses in men and equipment were huge. Two days later the Allied Liberation of Paris was completed and on 30 August, the remnants of Army Group B retreated across the Seine, which ended Operation Overlord.".
- Falaise_Pocket causalties "5,679 casualties".
- Falaise_Pocket causalties "Canada:".
- Falaise_Pocket causalties "Free French:".
- Falaise_Pocket causalties "Great Britain:".
- Falaise_Pocket causalties "Poland:".
- Falaise_Pocket causalties "United States:".
- Falaise_Pocket causalties "Unknown".
- Falaise_Pocket causalties "of which 2,300 for the 1st. Armoured Division.".
- Falaise_Pocket combatant "Poland".
- Falaise_Pocket commander Bernard_Montgomery.
- Falaise_Pocket commander Courtney_Hodges.
- Falaise_Pocket commander George_S._Patton.
- Falaise_Pocket commander Günther_von_Kluge.
- Falaise_Pocket commander Harry_Crerar.
- Falaise_Pocket commander Heinrich_Eberbach.
- Falaise_Pocket commander Miles_Dempsey.
- Falaise_Pocket commander Omar_Bradley.
- Falaise_Pocket commander Paul_Hausser.
- Falaise_Pocket commander Walter_Model.
- Falaise_Pocket date "1944-08-21".
- Falaise_Pocket isPartOfMilitaryConflict Operation_Overlord.
- Falaise_Pocket place France.
- Falaise_Pocket place Normandy.
- Falaise_Pocket result "Decisive Allied victory".
- Falaise_Pocket strength "14–15 divisions".
- Falaise_Pocket strength "up to 17 divisions".
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- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageExternalLink Victory_e.pdf.
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- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageLength "41578".
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- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageRevisionID "705861226".
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- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageWikiLink Dives_(river).
- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageWikiLink Dwight_D._Eisenhower.
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- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageWikiLink Fallschirmjäger_(World_War_II).
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- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageWikiLink France.
- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageWikiLink Generalfeldmarschall.
- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageWikiLink George_S._Patton.
- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageWikiLink German_military_administration_in_occupied_France_during_World_War_II.
- Falaise_Pocket wikiPageWikiLink Günther_von_Kluge.