Falaise Pocket

Name: Falaise Pocket
Start: 1944-01-01
End: 1944-12-31
Location: Orne

1944 • Orne

Carte de la bataille de la poche de Falaise

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Leaving a cloud of dust behind them, American armoured forces race through Ballon in pursuit of the retreating Germans as the Falaise Gap narrows with American and British forces closing on both sides. Approximately 60,000 German prisoners besides thousands of German dead were trapped in the Falaise pocket

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Organisation et composition de l'armée britannique. Organisation et composition de l'armée britannique.

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Carro M4 Sherman della 2e division blindée francese in avanzata verso Argentan durante la battaglia di Normandia

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Vehicles of the 3rd Canadian Division advancing on Bretteville-le Rabet, France, towards Falaise as part of Operation Tractable

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Japanese-American infantrymen of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team hike up a muddy French road in the Chambois Sector, France, in late 1944. (Army Center for Military History file photo)

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Soldats américains dans Alençon en août 1944

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Soldats américains dans Argentan libérée

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Frankreich, bei Falaise, zerstörte Gebäude in Ortschaft

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Frankreich, bei Falaise, Zerstörungen in Ortschaft

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The Sherman tank "Bomb" of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers hunts snipers with troops of the Mont Royal Regiment in Falaise, August 17, 1944.

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Soldier of Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (4th Canadian Armoured Division) passing a destroyed Canadian tank in St. Lambert sur Dive

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Canadian soldiers at Falaise town entrance

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“IKE” INSPECTS THE WORK OF HIS MEN FRANCE – Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied expeditionary forces, inspects an overturned German tank left by a roadside in France by the retreating enemy.

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General Elfeld of the German 84th Korps, having surrendered to Canadian & Polish forces on August 20, 1944.

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encirclement

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Map of the Normandy Battle August 1-13 1944

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The bodies of dead German soldiers near a destroyed AFV in the Falaise Pocket, 12 August 1944. The vehicle appears to be a Sonderkraftfahrzeug 165 "Hummel" 150 mm self-propelled artillery.

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Map of the en:Falaise_pocketadapted into Falaise_Pocket_map (rus).svg form (with a coupl of minor presentation changes).

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La bolsa de Falaise

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Map of the en:Falaise_pocket adapted into .svg form (with a coupl of minor presentation changes).

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Schematic map of the Battle of Falaise, August 1944, in Polish

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Falaise-katlan

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Map of the en:Falaise PocketDownloaded from [1] en:Category:Maps of the history of Europe en:Category:Maps of World War II in Europe

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Map of the en:Falaise_pocket adapted into .svg form (with a coupl of minor presentation changes).

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Historical Overview

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 German Army Group B, consisting of the 7th Army and the Fifth Panzer Army, were encircled by the Western Allies. The battle resulted in the destruction of most of Army Group B west of the Seine, which opened the way to Paris and the Franco-German border.