Word: cotentin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps Lieut. General Omar Bradley's victory on the Cotentin peninsula last week was something more 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...
Meanwhile, Bradley brought in the 9th Division, teamed it with the 82nd Airborne Division, another battle-tried outfit which had made the first landings in the Cotentin. While the Nazis battered their heads and their armor around Montebourg, the 9th and 82nd struck west...
...invasion was clear, simple, masterly: 1) to seize beachheads on a sector of coast well within efficient fighter- plane range and economical shipping range of southern England; 2) to join and deep en them, thereby making a solid bridge head; 3) to drive southwest across the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, severing it from the rest of Nazi-held France; 4) to swing north and take (from the rear) the great port of Cherbourg. In the first week, everything depended on the Allies' ability to land enough sup plies on the obstacle-strewn beaches to sustain their forces until Cherbourg...
...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...
...Cherbourg - major port on the tip of Cotentin (or Norman) peninsula sticking north like a thumb toward Britain, 80 miles across the Channel. It is heavily fortified and protected by the German-held Channel Islands. Beaches on both sides of the peninsula are limited by high cliffs...