Word: cherbourg
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...with fanatical confidence in his plans and troops, might have had some uneasy moments in the early stages of the battle, as he pushed the thin beachhead inland, turned the Second Army eastward to invite resistance and hold it, then wheeled the American First Army west and north to Cherbourg. The plan worked: British infantry and artillery held the German armored attacks...
Tank Match. Now, even before Cherbourg's port was restored, the Allied armies had enough power piled up to begin an offensive in the Second Army's sector. They drove head-on into the Germans. British and Canadian infantry, following up the tanks, pushed their lines forward until Caen was encircled on three sides and the highways and railroads to the north and southwest of the city were...
...Cherbourg maneuver might be repeated, with Allied forces striking away from German strength to cut off the Brittany peninsula, and seize the ports of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire...
...troops had been fighting inside Cherbourg for 26 hours. But on the city's perimeter were Maginot-type forts, begun by Vauban in the 17th Century, improved by Napoleon in 1808, perfected by Todt in the 1940s, which still blazed with bitter resistance. Spectacled Major General Manton S. Eddy, commander of the 9th Division, stood with one of his regimental commanders on a hillside near Octeville, on the southwest approaches to the port...
...lieutenant presented the compliments of Lieut. General Karl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben, military commander of Cherbourg, and of Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke, naval commander, and asked that an officer be sent to the tunnel to conduct them out to surrender...