Word: breakouts
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Then the Allies in the north began to move. Brisk, wiry Lieut. General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar's Canadian First Army moved behind a 1 ,000-plane breakout bombing, fought fiercely to set up bridgeheads over the Orne, battled a German bulge to the west in which Kluge vainly spent some of his reserves...
...Germans still held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat. To consolidate against a possible swift U.S. flanking envelopment, the Germans quickly made an orderly withdrawal behind the Orne River. Below Caen the weight of British and Canadian armor was still poised for a breakout. Its obvious first use would be to punch the Germans back against the Seine...
...than the breaking of a stalemate. It may have been the opening break to the bigger battle that was in Ike Eisenhower's blueprint for destruction of the German in the west. Or, as war against the German goes in the west, it may have been only a breakout, destined to be stopped by a new line of resistance...
...Tank and By Foot. The breakout by the armored forces was swift, decisive. U.S. tankmen swept out into the open fields from the woods that tankers hate...