This is an airpower perspective on the destruction of the German - TopicsExpress



          

This is an airpower perspective on the destruction of the German VII Army in the Falaise pocket, the last significant action of the Normandy Campaign. The position of Allied Ground forces at this stage is highly relevant though. The Northen side of the pocket had been the primary battleground for the key attrition actions between the British, Canadian and German armies. The southern part of the pocket was rapidly filling up with troops from the US breakout in the west, engaging the Germans in the rear. The cork in the bottle was a single Polish Armoured Division, holding a position on a ridge, denying both escape to the VII Army and the possibility of relief from German forces to the east. The carnage on the road heading east out of the pocket presaged the Mitla pass in 1967 and the road from Kuwait to Basra in 1991.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:18:11 +0000

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