June 6, 1944 Operation Overlord

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12:25p, 8/9/23
August 9, 1944: 1st (CA) Army continues Operation Totalize towards Falaise with raids by the 4th Armoured Division and the 1 Dywizja Pancerna. The I. SS-Panzerkorps is down to 15 Tiger I tanks, 15 Mark VIs and 5 Panthers.

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11:36a, 8/10/23
August 10, 1944: Operation Totalize fails to reach Falaise and is halted in the face of additional I. SS-Panzerkorps tanks. General Patton's 3rd (US) Army continues to bypass the Normandy front, seizing Angers that day.

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2:42p, 8/11/23
August 11, 1944. Montgomery issued directive M518: the 1st (CA) Army was to seize Argentan once Falaise was under control, allowing the 2nd (GB) Army to move towards the Seine from the Caen plain.
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11:41a, 8/12/23
August 12, 1944: the XV (US) Corps has broken through almost 50km in a week. Its speed prevents the Panzergruppe Eberbach from counter-attacking as planned: the 116. Panzerdivision is forced to take defensive action.

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12:15p, 8/13/23
August 13, 1944: General Bradley prefers to consolidate his positions rather than stretch his lines to close the trap. This decision had far-reaching consequences: thousands of German soldiers managed to escape the encirclement.


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4:31p, 8/14/23
August 14, 1944: the 1st (CA) Army launches Operation Tractable around midday. After a massive raid, the II (CA) Corps moved from Estres-la-Campagne towards Falaise. In the evening, the Canadians seized a bridgehead south of the Laison river.

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6:37a, 8/15/23
August 15, 1944: South of France, Operation Dragoon began with the landing of the 7th (US) Army. News of the landing did not reach the troops in Normandy until the following day, but it spread like wildfire, boosting the morale of the Allied fighters.

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2:22p, 8/15/23
August 15, 1944: on the second day of Operation Tractable, the Canadians and Poles of the II (CA) Corps converged southwards, gradually breaking the German defensive lock north of Falaise.

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11:38a, 8/16/23
August 16, 1944: considering the hopelessness of the situation, von Kluge issued orders for the exfiltration. He estimated that 4 days and 4 nights would be needed to complete the evacuation of his 5 corps.

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4:19p, 8/17/23
August 17, 1944: the 1st (CA) Army made a major advance today, following the capture of Falaise by the II (CA) Corps and the launch of Operation Paddle by the I (GB) Corps towards the Dives...

The final objective of this offensive was presented by Montgomery on August 6 in his directive M 517: to form a new trap between the Seine and the Loire, in order to definitively trap the German forces evacuating the front in Normandy.

The first reconnaissance operations began, with the aim of seizing a bridgehead east of the Dives, between Dives-sur-Mer and Dozul. By this time, the Germans still had a 9 km wide corridor in the Chambois region, and were exfiltrating in good order.

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11:55a, 8/18/23
August 18, 1944: the V (US) Corps launched its northward offensive to link up with the 1st (CA) Army. Fighting was fierce against elements of the 116. Panzerdivision covering the evacuation of the entanglement...

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3:33p, 8/19/23
August 19, 1944: : the 1st (US) Army and the 1st (CA) Army succeeded in joining forces. On the American side, the 90th Infantry Division reached the village of Chambois, where it linked up with the Poles of the 1 Dywizja Pancerna.

But the front was not hermetic: while many German soldiers surrendered, several hundred others managed to avoid encirclement. The trap is still not closed.

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1:27p, 8/20/23
August 20, 1944: while the 1st (CA) Army unsuccessfully sought to seize the German evacuation corridor between Coudehard and Mont-Ormel, Montgomery issued his M519 directive, in which he set his priority on quickly reaching the Seine.

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12:04p, 8/21/23
August 21, 1944: taking advantage of night-time overcast and morning fog, German convoys try their luck at evacuating the encirclement in the direction of Vimoutiers, before the corridor is finally closed.

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11:48a, 8/22/23
August 22, 1944: all Allied armies are now fully committed to the Seine. The 3rd (US) Army is already at Mantes-la-Jolie, while the 2nd (GB) Army advances towards Elbeuf. The 2nd French armored division is allowed to reach Paris.

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1:23p, 8/23/23
August 23, 1944: Montgomery presented Eisenhower with a plan to reach the Ruhr. Montgomery's option was to bypass the Westwall from the north, while concentrating Allied forces. This study is the blueprint for Operation Market Garden.

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1:35p, 8/24/23
August 24, 1944: the 5. Panzerarmee reports that some 25,000 vehicles crossed the Seine between August 20 and 24. The Germans now consolidate their defensive position east of the Seine under the responsibility of the 15. Armee.

Meanwhile, the Allies' advance towards Paris turned into a diplomatic tug-of-war. General Leclerc, caught off guard by the Americans, who finally ordered the 4th Infantry Division to enter the capital first, ordered a small detachment under Captain Dronne...

company officer of the 9th "Nueve" Company (mostly Spanish Republicans) of the Chad March Regiment, to reach Paris City Hall, which was successfully reached at 11 p.m., making the French unit the first Allied troop in the French capital.

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5:57a, 8/25/23
John T. Siewert, vtran du Jour J bord de l'USS Satterlee engag face la Pointe du Hoc, est dcd le 8 aot 2023 99 ans.

John T. Siewert, #DDay veteran aboard USS Satterlee engaged opposite Pointe du Hoc, died on August 8, 2023 aged 99.

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12:19p, 8/27/23
Did you know? The Merville battery, stormed on June 6, 1944 by a handful of paratroopers from the 9th (GB) Para Battalion, was not held after it was neutralized. It was definitively occupied by the Allies after the launch of Operation Paddle on August 17, 1944.

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6:14a, 8/30/23
30 Aug 1944: The Battle of #Normandy ends with an allied victory over the Germans during World War II. The battle began on June 6, 1944 with Operation Overlord, aka D-Day, the allied landings in Normandy, France.

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11:48a, 9/13/23
Omaha Beach, Easy Red sector, west of Ruquet: June 6, 1944, shortly before 11 a.m., 3 Sherman tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion face the "Easy-1" beach exit. The one on the left is equipped with the "Duplex Drive" amphibious device...

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11:33a, 9/14/23
Inaugurated on June 6, 2021 at Ver-sur-Mer, the British Normandy Memorial commemorates the names of the 22,442 officers and soldiers of 30 different nationalities killed in Normandy between June 6 and August 31, 1944 while serving under British command.

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11:12a, 9/15/23



Selon le journal rgional Ouest-France, la crmonie internationale du 80e anniversaire du dbarquement et de la bataille de #Normandie sera organise le 6 juin 2024 Omaha Beach. Une information qui doit encore tre confirme par l'lyse


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11:16a, 9/15/23
According to the French regional newspaper Ouest-France, the international ceremony marking the D-Day 80th anniversary will be held on Omaha Beach on June 6, 2024.
This information has yet to be confirmed by the French presidency.

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