Operation Cobra

When

25 Jul 1944 – 31 Jul 1944

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

49.12° N, 1.09° W

Description

1944 World War II battle in France

American offensive in the Western Theater of World War II

Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II. The intention was to take advantage of the distraction of the Germans by the sustained British and Canadian attacks around Caen, and thereby break through the German defenses that were penning in their forces, while the Germ…

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operation Cobra: American forces launch an air and ground offensive against the German defenders in western Normandy, forcing them to retreat”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Operation Cobra beginnt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les Américains déclenchent l’opération Cobra vers le sud-ouest de la Normandie qui aboutit le 31 juillet à la percée d'Avranches (Patton)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “se inicia el plan de la Operación Cobra en Normandía, con el propósito de abrir la ruta de Bretaña y atravesar las líneas defensivas alemanas de la 130°…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page