Closing the Falaise Pocket in the Battle of Normandy

You can buy me a coffee or a gallon of diesel - https://www.paypal.me/ColinMcgarry or support My Patreon   / walkingdday   Facebook   / colinmcgarrytourguide   Twitter https://twitter.com/DdayWalking?lang=en Linkdin   / colin-mcgarry-b0608b110   Web Site https://www.normandy-tour-guide.com Free Legend to the maps in the videos. https://www.normandy-tour-guide.com/c... NORMANDY VECTOR MAP https://www.normandy-tour-guide.com/c... My play list    • Walking D-day   After the breakout in July, Patton's tanks sped in to Brittany and Eastwards. Operation Luttich was launched to stem the flow. This failed and led to to a giant encirclement - the Falaise Pocket. This video deals with the closing of the pocket. Bibliography 00:00 Intro 01:30 Falaise 02:18 Polish at Jort 03:30 Cross German convoy 04:35 Champeaux 05:30 Saint Lambert sur Dives 07:24 Hill 117 08:15 Attack on St Lambert 12:03 Moissy Ford 14:30 The Mace Maczuga 17:50 Boisjo aid station 18:20 Bourg Saint Leonard 21:40 Taking Chambois 23:30 Tournai sur Dives surrender 25:25 Artifacts Soundfx: Mouse click (by THE_bizniss) https://freesound.org/people/THE_bizn... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Unfa's Menu Sounds (by unfa) https://freesound.org/people/unfa/sou... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... BronzeBell2 (by Zabuhailo) https://freesound.org/people/Zabuhail... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Font: https://www.dafont.com/fr/roboto.font Visited and Projected sites: Why D-Day Pegasus bridge Omaha beach Sword beach Pointe du Hoc American airborne Utah beach Juno beach Gold beach British airborne Saint Marie du Mont Waverly Wray Omaha inland 6th June 2020 76th anniversary. La Fierre Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil The Mahlmann line Band of Brothers Merville gun battery General Falley Longues gun battery Arromanches and the Mulberries 82nd airborne 101st airborne Donald Burgett Totalise Worthington Force Falaise pocket Taking St Lo Operation Cobra Graignes massacre Joe Beryle Ed Shames Angoville au plain Battle of Bloody gulch Taking Cherbourg Maisy gun battery. Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance Hillman Douvre radar station Photo credits US national archives Bundes archives

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The Battle for St Lo. A week to cover 3 miles in the Normandy hedgerows.

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The capture Cherbourg in the battle of Normandy. From Utah beach to Cherbourg

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The Canadians against the 12th SS Hitler youth, advancing from Juno beach

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The 101st airborne take Carentan. Band of brothers enter Carentan.

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The Battle of Carentan, Normandy 1944 - Animated

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Operation Bluecoat: the British breakout in Normandy. Sidney Bates was awarded the Victoria cross

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The Filthy Thirteen demolition section on D-day in Normandy. Filthy, they were, but not always 13.

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Operation Charnwood; taking of Caen 6 weeks after D-day by the British and Canadian troops.

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Hill 95 & the High Water Mark of the 82nd Airborne in Normandy | History Traveler Episode 297

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Pinned Down Outside St-Lo (Not AI - WW2 Documentary)