The grinding battle for Caen
1944 · Event
Montgomery's D-Day objective takes six weeks and a succession of code-named offensives to fall, drawing the German panzer divisions onto the British front and grinding the city itself to rubble. Bitterly criticised then and since — but while the panzers face Caen, they cannot face the Americans.
On these timelines: D-Day & the Liberation of Europe, World War II, Master, France
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