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Armored Blitz To Avranches: How the Allies Broke Into Brittany

Armored Blitz To Avranches: How the Allies Broke Into Brittany
The race for Avranches brought an end to the Americans fighting in swamps and hedgerows for incremental gains.
Here s What You Need to Know: The U.S. VIII Corps exploited Operation Cobra and cracked a doorway into Brittany.
Lieutenant General Omar Bradley had reason to be pleased by the last week of July 1944. His First Army had scratched out a substantial foothold on the Normandy coast, capturing three times more French territory than his British allies. He had cut off the Cherbourg peninsula to the west and pushed his army south. His carpet bombing of the German Army south of St. Lo, Operation Cobra, helped crack the enemy line. But his four corps, composed mostly of infantry, were still only inching forward. It had taken him almost two months to advance approximately 80 square miles. He needed to win the war faster than this. ....

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Battle for Noville: How an American Scratch Force Held a German Panzer Division at Bay

The hard-fought battle was a solid American victory.
Here s What You Need to Know: A scratch force of an American armored division held a German panzer division at bay north of Bastogne during World War II.
It was December 19, 1944, one day before the Siege of Bastogne. Shortly after 10:30 am, 26-year-old Major William Desobry picked up his field telephone, called his combat commander, Colonel William Roberts, and asked if he could withdraw from the Belgian village of Noville. Desobry had been holding off the entire German 2nd Panzer Division some 16,000-men with more than 120 tanks and assault guns for the last six hours with only 400 men and a handful of tanks and tank destroyers. ....

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