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Falaise (French pronunciation: [falɛz] ) is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France. Communes of the Ardennes department "Répertoire national...

The Falaise pocket or battle of the Falaise pocket (German: Kessel von Falaise; 12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy...

Look up falaise in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Falaise may refer to: Falaise, Ardennes, commune in France Falaise, Calvados, commune in France The...

Eisenach, Germany, since 1991 Sedan, Kansas Communes of the Ardennes department CS Sedan Ardennes, football club based in Sedan French Towns and Lands of...

Villy may refer to the following places: in France: Villy, Ardennes, in the Ardennes département Villy, Yonne, in the Yonne département Villy Bocage,...

casualties during the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. In December 1944, the division was committed against the US Army in the Ardennes offensive. After the operation's...

heavy losses and eventually finding many of its divisions trapped in the Falaise Pocket. After the shattered remnants of the panzer group escaped from the...

I SS Panzer Corps, the Ardennes and Eastern Front 1944–45: The Story of the 1st and 12th SS Panzer Divisions in the Ardennes and on the Eastern Front...

success by driving south, to capture the high ground north of the city of Falaise. The goal was to collapse the German front and cut off the retreat of German...

Normandy landings, the Battle of Normandy, and was later trapped in the Falaise Pocket following Operation Cobra, Operation Bluecoat, Operations Totalize...

The operation was to capture the tactically important French town of Falaise and then the smaller towns of Trun and Chambois. This operation was undertaken...

out in the Falaise Pocket. Abandoning what remained of their heavy equipment, shattered remnants of the 7th Army escaped from the Falaise Pocket and retreated...

through the Ardennes and into Luxembourg, leaving their defensive line lightly reinforced. Between September and 16 December, the Ardennes Forest was the...

the location of a bloody engagement in the final stages of the Battle of Falaise in the Normandy Campaign during the Second World War. By late summer 1944...

August, which finally took Falaise on 17 August. In view of the slow Canadian advance, Patton requested permission to take Falaise, but was refused by Bradley...

on 7 August left 50,000 soldiers of the German 7th Army trapped in the Falaise pocket by 19 August. The Allies launched a second invasion from the Mediterranean...

was sent to Normandy from Beauvais after D-Day, and on June 10 it was in Falaise; the next day, it was about 10 kilometers from Caen. The unit was part...

pronunciation: [ʃaʁləvil mezjɛʁ] ) is a commune of northern France, capital of the Ardennes department, Grand Est. Charleville-Mézières is located on the banks of...

Normandy in World War II. Prior to the battle, a pocket had formed around Falaise, Calvados, where the German Army Group B, with the 7th Army and the Fifth...

60 per cent casualty rate. The Canadian forces began their advance on Falaise, planning to meet up with the Americans with the goal of encircling and...