Word: caen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protect the Americans' Cotentin operation, the Allies had to guard against interference by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's mobile reserves. To this task Ike Eisenhower assigned a British-Canadian army which drove swiftly inland to Bayeux and Caen, and cut the Germans' main supply road and railway from the east...
...British attained their full preliminary objectives as early as had been hoped. It was week's end before the Yanks drove through Trevieres to Sully, effected a firm juncture with the British and thus united the beachheads; meantime the British were still battling to close a vise around Caen and there set up an immovable roadblock against Nazi counterattack...
...urgent need for this block was clear: Rommel lost no time in making tactical counterattacks with his 21st Panzers. Around Caen the first tank battles of the invasion were fought. But they were preliminary, minor skirmishes compared with what was to be expected when Rommel finally struck...
...third pages of the lead invasion article appeared a detailed, double-page panoramic drawing showing great Allied fleets of planes and ships hurtling from England toward a section of the French coast which would have been easily recognizable even without the names identifying its chief cities: LE HAVRE, CAEN, CHERBOURG. Explanation of this astonishing bull's-eye: LIFE'S editors, knowing no more than any other laymen about where the invasion would strike, had simply chosen what seemed to them a likely spot. Like the seven other drawings in LIFE'S invasion story, this one had been...
France. Thirty German soldiers were killed, 100 seriously injured when francs-tireurs derailed a Berlin-Paris troop train. Elsewhere in France, ten military trains were wrecked. In Caen all rail connections with the port were cut by well-placed bombs. In Lyon a pitched battle with francs-tireurs cost the Germans 25 casualties. At Annamasse two bombs exploded in a Nazi office building...