Word: caen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Montgomery's 21st Allied Arm group gathered itself-swiftly and accurately because its communications lines were free and open-to "hit" Rommel for another "six." At week's end, with the opposing troops still locked in bitter, indecisive battle around Caen, wry, spry, sharp-faced Monty made a quick tour of the front. He seemed satisfied with what...
British troops around Caen smashed a series of desperate German counterattacks and ground ahead slowly. To the west, U.S. troops, who had been building up for a new strike, launched their drive along a 40-mile front in drenching rain; on the first day they churned through for gains of as much as three miles...
...many a secret Commando raid, conferred with the commanding general of the British Sixth Airborne Division somewhere in southern England. One detachment of the Sixth's parachute and glider troops was to carry out the desperate mission of seizing key bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal. They were to hold them against German counterattack until Lovat's Commando-men could fight their way in overland. The general explained...
...Payoff. At exactly 12:17½ a tall, slim officer with a rifle slung over one shoulder scrambled up the bank of the Caen Canal. Behind him came a sweating, 21-year-old Glasgow piper, behind the piper a long line of grim-bereted Commando troops. The paratroop brigadier came up to shake Lord Lovat's hand. Their greeting was brief and British...
Wrong Guess Again. British and Canadian troops on the easternmost sector of the bridgehead met the stubbornest German resistance. Caen held...