Falaise Pocket

Wann

12. Aug. 1944 – 21. Aug. 1944

Art

Schlacht

Koordinaten

48.89° N, 0.19° W

Description

1944 engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War

War

World War II

Engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War

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.

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