What the records say
- When
- 13 May 1940
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 49.70° N, 4.94° E
- Description
- battle which took place in the Second World War during the Battle of France in 1940.
- War
- World War II
Battle of Sedan (1940)
WWII battle during the Battle of France
The Battle of Sedan or Second Battle of Sedan took place in World War II during the Battle of France in 1940. It was part of the German Wehrmacht's operational plan codenamed Fall Gelb for an offensive through the hilly and forested Ardennes to encircle the Allied armies in Belgium and north-eastern France.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht von Sedan gelingt deutschen Panzertruppen der Durchbruch in die strategische Tiefe der alliierten Einheiten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les blindés allemands du général Guderian percent le front à Sedan et la Wehrmacht franchit la Meuse à Dinant”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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