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	Waffen-SS: The Falaise Pocket, 1944
		The SS units managed to keep open the Allied jaws before they finally snapped shut at Falaise, and what was left of the once mighty Wehrmacht in France retreated east.
		The next most senior general in Normandy was Hausser, so he was appointed to command all the troops trapped in the Falaise Kessel (or kettle).
		The Waffen-SS divisions fared better than most, and the vast majority of their support elements managed to escape eastwards before the pocket was sealed on 20 August.
	www.germanwarmachine.com /waffenss/1944/falaisepocket.htm (1199 words)

	Canada at War - Page » WWII: The Falaise Gap
		The Falaise pocket (also known as the Chambois pocket) was the area between the four cities of Trun-Argentan-Vimoutiers-Chambois near Falaise, France, in which Allied forces tried to encircle and destroy the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in August 1944.
		Throughout the intense struggle for control of the Falaise Pocket, the Allied air forces were wreaking horrendous destruction on the Germans inside.
		The battle of the Falaise Gap was known as the "death road" by German troops.
	wwii.ca /page23.html (1716 words)

	D Day: Closing the Gap at Falaise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		As the perimeter closed down, the pocket became a gap, and the Allies struggled to close it.
		Eventually, the Canadians pressed south from Falaise, the Americans north from Argentan, and both sought to narrow and close the gap by reaching the road network across and beyond the Dives River, at Trun, St. Lambert, Moissy, and Chambois.
		Over the duration of the Falaise fighting, air strikes gradually moved from west of Argentan to north, to east, and finally to east of the Dives River.
	www.aero-web.org /history/wwii/d-day/15.html (946 words)

	Falaise, Calvados - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Falaise is a commune in the Calvados département, in the Basse-Normandie administrative région, in Normandy, north-western France.
		The castle (12th-13th century), which overlooks the town from a high crag, was formerly the seat of the dukes of Normandy.
		The town is known for the battle of the "Falaise pocket" during the Allied reconquest of France in August 1944 in which two German armies were encircled and destroyed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falaise,_Calvados,_France (179 words)

	Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Tactical Air Combat Over Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		On August 15, the Canadian First Army took Falaise, and the Allied armies converging from the north, south, and west squeezed the retreating German forces into a "pocket" between Falaise and Argentan.
		This pocket was less than 15 miles wide and was rapidly shrinking, with the only exit to the east.
		The air over the Falaise pocket was so crowded with aircraft that coordination became an issue, and mid-air collisions took a toll among pilots focused on destroying the enemy.
	www.microsoft.com /games/combatfs3/article_campaign3.asp (663 words)

	War Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The battle was over and the whole of the area from the Orne in the west to Mount Ormel in the east and from Falaise in the north to Argentan in the south was one vast cemetery of uninterred dead.
		The generals failed their men and the 10,000 German dead of the Falaise pocket were the price of their failure.
		One German historian estimated that only 20,000 men of the 80,000 in the pocket managed to escape, that a further 50,000 were taken prisoner and that 10,000 died on the field of battle.
	home.comcast.net /~ralph608/falaisegap.htm (1493 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Falaise pocket
		In response, the isolated Poles were repeatedly and ferociously attacked, especially on August 20 when the II SS Panzer Corps, which had escaped the pocket, attacked and broke through back into the pocket from Vimoutiers.
		The formation and reduction of the pocket was a great Allied success; there was however a sense, even as the pocket closed, that the prisoner haul could have been more.
		Although there was a legitimate need to avoid friendly-fire incidents, and fast moving units might have fallen victim to friendly fire if link-ups were not carefully coordinated, a boundary change would not necessarily have led to fratricide.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Falaise_pocket (1458 words)

	194408
		As RAF planes bomb the pocket's northern shoulder, a "mad charge" by 250 tanks of the 1st Polish and 4th Canadian Armored divisions nearly reaches the crossroads at Falaise.
		Falaise is so heavily bombed and shelled it's impossible to determine where its streets are.
		Eisenhower describes the Falaise pocket as one of the war's worst "killing grounds" with dead men and destroyed equipment choking roads, highways, villages and fields.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /tenison/297/wwii/194408.htm (3888 words)

	First For France - Falaise Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Falaise - the birthplace of William The Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, the man who changed the history of England after his famous victory over King Harold in 1066.
		Falaise is a good place from which to explore the beautiful Suisse Normande.
		In 1944 the area was known as the 'Falaise Pocket'.
	www.firstforfrance.com /L4_Town.asp?t=472 (467 words)

	19 August 1944
		Falaise, Normandy: A fleet of RAF Dakotas today landed 60 SAS soldiers led by Captain Roy Farran on an airstrip behind enemy lines at Rennes.
		While the heaviest fighting continues in the "Falaise Pocket", near Argentan, where large Panzer forces are being concentrated, Patton has sent three of his corps south and east to capture Orleans and Chartres, with advance units poised to take Fontainebleau.
		The Germans retreating from the Falaise/Argentan pocket are being attacked from the air with devastating effect; but the confusion on the ground has on several occasions led to Allied troops being bombed by their own air forces.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/08/19.htm (1360 words)

	The Falaise Pocket
		It was vital for the Canadians to obtain Falaise quickly and for Miles Dempsy’s British Army to push eastward to both Falaise and Argentan.
		The Germans in the west part of the pocket retreated toward the Orne River that night, and were not interfered with by the Allies.
		Despite many setbacks on the Allied side, the Falaise pocket was one of [insert file battle.txt from disk two] the bloodiest campaigns in the War.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /normandy/cobra_falaise/falaise.htm (1110 words)

	Achtung Panzer! - Waffen SS Panzer Divisions 1943-1945
		From November of 1943, it saw service on the Eastern Front until it was moved to Belgium to be refitted in April of 1944.
		From June of 1944, it saw in Normandy until it was virtually wiped out at Falaise Pocket in August of 1944.
		In October of 1944, it was moved to Oldenburg to be refitted and in December of 1944, it took part in the Ardennes Offensive.
	www.achtungpanzer.com /articles/wpzdiv.htm (619 words)

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		As a pocket forms to their north and south, Hitler orders 7th Army to launch counterattacks west to recapture Avranches and cut off Patton's marauding tanks.
		Air support is concentrated and heavy in the Falaise-Argentan pocket where the remnants of the German 7th Army are desperately attempting to withdraw from the threatened encirclement.
		To the west, the Falaise Pocket is reduced to an area less than 40 square miles.
	www.bartcop.com /arc4408.htm (3176 words)

	Falaise pocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Among those not captured were one army commander, four corps commanders and 14 division commanders, who would escape the pocket.
		However, his eastward attack by XV Corps even before the pocket was closed belies this position.
		In the PC game Company of Heroes, the final mission involves closing the Falaise Pocket by controlling 4 bridges to deny German supply reinforcement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falaise_pocket (1534 words)

	Falaise Pocket
		Thrown into a pointless counter-attack at Mortain, the German forces were unable to avoid the trap which the Allied chiefs of staff had planned for them on 8 August 1944.
		I found a museum about the Falaise pocket with a lot of stuff.
		In the museum The Battle of the Falaise Pocket a marvellous diorama is shown about the battle of the Falaise Pocket.
	www.saak.nl /normandy1999/falaise_pocket.htm (132 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| World War II: Closing the Falaise Pocket
		With the Canadian occupation of Falaise to the north, a pocket was forming in which the Seventh Army-and perhaps all of German Army Group B-could be trapped if Patton's troops turned north to link up with the Canadians.
		On the night of August 16, the 90th Infantry Division, situated at Le Bourg St. Leonard, was released from the Third Army's XV Corps and assigned to a provisional corps to assist in closing the Falaise pocket.
		He had been visiting the Falaise area when his radio truck was disabled, leaving him out of contact with his headquarters for several hours.
	historynet.com /wwii/blfalaise (1452 words)

	The Mace - August 20, 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		As the operation began, the German units in the pocket were finally given permission to withdraw.
		When the word was given, some of their units were so eager for action that they launched southward without waiting for resupply.
		The Germans, on their part, are trying to escape the cauldron of the Falaise Pocket.
	www.poeland.com /tanks/scenarios/mace/index.html (513 words)

	Skylighters, The Web Site of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion: Photo of the Week -- 13 December 2004
		A Canadian Army sergeant walks through the devastated streets of the town of Falaise, France, hammered nearly flat by heavy artillery shelling and constant bombing from the air.
		Fierce, bloody resistance was met at the town of Falaise.
		The Germans fought to keep a corridor open for retreat, but the advancing Allied armies ultimately closed all avenues of escape, created the infamous "Falaise Pocket." Almost 100,000 Germans managed to escape, but nearly 10,000 were killed, and another 50,000 were captured along with tons of heavy equipment and supplies.
	www.skylighters.org /potw/pow12132004.html (269 words)

	Untitled Document
		Following the failed German Mortain counter-offensive the Allies were presented with an excellent opportunity to trap a large pocket of German troops and equipment to the south of Falaise.
		Although bickering ensued as to whether or not the pocket in which the Germans were being squeezed could have been closed earlier with many more Axis troops being trapped and captured, the Allies won a spectacular victory.
		After stopping for lunch in Falaise we will press on to the museum at Mount Ormel which examines the battle of the Falaise Pocket in some detail.
	www.strategos.demon.co.uk /D-Day/Kesselschlacht.htm (343 words)

	Local area
		He was born in 1028 at Falaise to Robert II Duke of Normandy 6th and Herleva.
		This battle, which would lead to the annihilation of two German armies (the 5th and the 7th Panzer Army), is known as the Battle of the Falaise Pocket.
		A measure of the ferocity of the fighting is that the forward elements of both the Canadian and Polish armoured divisions were cut off for up to three days.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /robertvaughan/gite/local_area/falaise.htm (629 words)

	WW2DB: Normandy Campaign, Phase 2
		The German forces caught inside the pocket fought fiercely in attempt to break the newly formed Allied lines to the east.
		Before the Allies closed the pocket, the narrow escape route was named "the corridor of death" by the Germans who survived the escape.
		"The battlefield at Falaise was unquestionably one of the greatest 'killing fields' of any of the war areas", Eisenhower noted in his memoirs.
	ww2db.com /battle_spec.php?battle_id=112 (1106 words)

	DECISION AT ARGENTAN
		If the Canadians attacking from the north took Falaise and if the XV Corps attacking from the south took Alencon, thirty-five miles would separate the two Allied flanks and the Germans would be virtually surrounded.
		The failure of the Canadians to reach Falaise more quickly made General Bradley's decision to halt the XV Corps appear in retrospect to many commanders, both Allied and German, to have been a tactical error, a failure to take full advantage of German vulnerability.
		Bradley estimated that, "due to the delay in closing the gap between Argentan and Falaise, many of the German divisions which were in the pocket have now escaped." Thus it was unnecessary to retain a large force at Argentan.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_17.htm (6883 words)

	Falaise - FALAISE Dalmatians
		Bernard Falaise: biography - actuellecd.com — musique actuelle +
		Bernard Falaise was born in Montréal, where he currently lives.
		These operations have become known as the battle of the Falaise Gap.
	internetslurp.com /ieel/falaise.htm (170 words)

	TD Battalion Histories
		Participated in operations against the Ruhr Pocket in April, then conducted road march south to Bavaria and reached the Isar River before ending offensive operations.
		Moved to the Ardennes sector in early December, where the battalion was deployed with the 106th Infantry Division in the path of the German offensive.
		Arrived in Seventh Army’s sector east of the Vosges at the height of the German Nordwind offensive in January 1945, equipped with M18s.
	homepage.mac.com /yeide/TDBattalionHistories.htm (6869 words)

	European Campaigns
		The armored spearheads led the way out (of) the Brittany Peninsula which was quickly occupied, with the execption of the fortresses of the port cities which were to continue to fight until after the German borders had been reached.
		While part of the U.S. forces were over-running the Brittany Peninsula, the major portion turned toward the east in the direction of Paris, and the British and Canadian troops moved southward from Caen along the road to Falaise.
		The battle of the Falaise-Argentan pocket was a disastrous defeat for the German forces who were trying to prevent the Allies from moving eastward.
	www.planetkc.com /joeroettgen/WWII/WWII_European_Campaigns.html (2430 words)

	War Museums - Mémorial de Montormel
		The Memorial (consisting of an actual memorial and a museum) recalls the horrific battle of the Falaise pocket, which lead to Hitler's first order to withdraw of the war in the west, and brought the Allied Normandy campaign to an end.
		During the battle tens-of-thousands of soldiers, refugees (who thought to have found a safe hiding place amidst the hills of Normandy's inland) and horses (the German army still relied heavily on horses) found their death.
		With tremendous determination and a very high casualty-rate, they succeeded in standing their ground and sealing off the Falaise pocket, resulting in the complete annihilation of two entire German armies and the virtual wipe-out of the 2nd SS division.
	www.warmuseums.nl /gal/078gal.htm (400 words)

	Amazon.com: Death of a Nazi Army: The Falaise Pocket: Books: William B. Breuer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The fact that photographs and movie film were shot by members of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit of Major Currie in action on the first day (perhaps the most famous Canadian photo of WW2) might also have been mentioned.
		Oh, and by the way, the photo of "Men of an American Armoured Division pause briefly..." is actually a picture of the short bombing in early August of the Canadian army on its fight towards Falaise.
		The original photo is in the Canadian Archives and one can clearly make out the British Army type uniforms and helmets, the vehicles all heading towards the camera except ambulance (red cross markings) heading back towards the bombed area to help with the many dead and hundreds of wounded.
	www.amazon.com /Death-Nazi-Army-Falaise-Pocket/dp/0812862856 (949 words)

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