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Operation Epsom

By Tim Saunders

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Year
2003
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
49 MB (51833644 bytes)
Series
Battleground Europe
Pages
\1113
Time added
2016-10-11 19:01:11

Description

Operation EPSOM was General Montgomerys third attempt to take the City of Caen, which had been a key British D-Day objective. Delayed by a storm, the attack, designed to envelop Caen from the west, eventually began at the end of June 1944. The Territorial Army battalions of 15th Scottish Division spearheaded the attacks through the well developed positions of 12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division. It was slow going and when tanks of the 11th Armoured Division dashed to the Odon Bridges they ran into the concentrated fire of dug-in panzers.

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