Word: caen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South of Caen, a Canadian unit wading through wheat fields fought its way into a cluster of apple orchards...
Already the Americans had anchored the Allied flank on the Loire near Nantes. To the east was open, rolling country, interlaced with direct roads to Angers, Le Mans, Tours, Alengon, Paris. To the north the 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...
...been captured by the Germans, then "wilfully" murdered. The shocking announcement was based on a factual investigation by an unhurried and "completely dispassionate" joint U.S.British-Canadian Court of Inquiry. Details were meager and evidence undisclosed. But it was known that the murders had occurred at Pavie, on the Caen-Bayeux highway, two days after Dday. Thirteen of the victims had been machine-gunned in a group. The Germans responsible were "members of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion of the 12th SS Panzer Division." (The SS murderers, reported Canadian Pressman Ross Munro, had been Hitler Jugend-most of them less than...
...British and Canadians were moving, too, in an offensive from the center of the line south of Caumont. The pressure was on. If it could be kept on, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery could pick his time to drive against the east end of the line, below Caen. There the enemy still had his heaviest defenses...
...immediate strategy of the Norman campaign still pointed southeast from Caen. Beyond it was tank country. There Monty could employ bolder tactics, for which his fast-stepping Sherman and Cromwell tanks were designed...