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	Maps WWII Western Front 1944
		Benefiting from the British-led operations around Caen, American armed forces made somewhat better progress in the effort to breakout on the right flank of the Allied line.
		The successful breakout from Normandy was reflected in the Allied sweep across northern France during this period.
		Landings in southern France (Operation Dragoon) took place on August 15th and the US and French forces swept northward against light opposition.
	www.onwar.com /maps/wwii/westfront (370 words)

	Pegasus Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bridge was a major objective of the British 6th Airborne Division, which was landed by glider near it during the Normandy Invasion on the 5th/6 June 1944.
		One of the men killed during the operation was Lt. Den Brotheridge, the first Allied soldier to be killed on D-Day.
		The operation is frequently referred to as Operation Coup de Main, although since coup-de-main is a term frequently used for a swift pre-emptive strike it is not clear if this is a description or an official codename.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pegasus_Bridge (636 words)

	Worthington Force Plan
		Operation 'Totalize' was a plan developed by Simmonds to break out south to Falaise.
		Totalize was scheduled to begin on the night of 7th/8th Aug44, with the second phase starting some fourteen hours later.
		Both divisions were forced to operate on a front of 900 metres at its widest, and significantly less at choke points caused by villages and natural obstacles.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/death_battle_group/wrthfrc2.htm (526 words)

	Operation Detroit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During World War II, Operation Detroit was the parachute insertion of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division into Normandy on the night of 5 June 1944 as part of Operation Overlord.
		The drop zone for the 82nd Airborne was around Sainte-Mère-Église, to the west of Utah beach, intending to protect the western flank of the invasion.
		On 6 June 1944 the heavier elements of the division landed by glider in Operation Elmira.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Detroit (142 words)

	Legion Magazine : Reassessing Operation Totalize - Part 27
		Operation Totalize was one of the most innovative breakthrough operations of the war.
		The original plan for Totalize had called for a step-by-step approach, but the withdrawal of three panzer divisions from the Caen sector led Simonds to order his two armoured divisions, 4th Cdn.
		Totalize ended that day in a costly attempt to capture Quesnay Wood, the focal point of German resistance north of Falaise.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/99-09.asp (2320 words)

	Books : No Holding Back: Operation Totalize, Normandy, August 1944
		Brian Reid's book is a superb study of the genesis and execution of Operation TOTALIZE, Canadian general Guy Simonds' master-stroke in attempting to break the German hold on the high ground south of Calais.
		This book is an in-depth examination of OPERATION TOTALIZE, one of many operations launched by the Canadian Army in Normandy, this one in the second week of August 1944.
		TOTALIZE was unique in that it was a large armoured attack launched at night (not common in doctrine at that time, though not untried, either), with the first use of a fully tracked and armoured APC to move the troops forward, as well as heavy bombing used tactically.
	www.homeremodelingtoday.com /books/home-remodeling/1896941400 (984 words)

	Amazon.com: No Holding Back: Operation Totalize, Normandy, August 1944: Books: Brian A. Reid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This book is an in-depth examination of OPERATION TOTALIZE, one of many operations launched by the Canadian Army in Normandy, this one in the second week of August 1944.
		TOTALIZE was unique in that it was a large armoured attack launched at night (not common in doctrine at that time, though not untried, either), with the first use of a fully tracked and armoured APC to move the troops forward, as well as heavy bombing used tactically.
		Brian Reid's book is a superb study of the genesis and execution of Operation TOTALIZE, Canadian general Guy Simonds' master-stroke in attempting to break the German hold on the high ground south of Calais.
	www.amazon.com /No-Holding-Back-Operation-Totalize/dp/1896941400 (1620 words)

	No Holding Back: Operation Totalize, Normandy, 1944
		This stark assessment, made by a senior German officer on the evening of 8 August 1944, was the German reaction to Operation TOTALIZE, the Canadian attack planned and led by General Guy Simonds that threatened to trap the German army in Normandy by linking up with Patton's advancing Third United States Army.
		Whether TOTALIZE should be seen as a success or a failure has been the subject of controversy and debate for sixty years.
		He was killed during the German counterattack to Operation TOTALIZE, and it had long been thought that he fell to the tanks of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry.
	www.rbstudiobooks.com /NHB1.html (943 words)

	BOMBING IN SUPPORT OF GROUND FORCES
		The studies are based on attack data such as operational orders, signals, maps, air reconnaissance photographs and their associated interpretation reports, ground investigations of the target areas, and interviews with eye witnesses including German prisoners of war.
		The operation to which the report refers was an attack by heavy bombers on the night of 7.7.44 on two targets north of Caen in support of Operation Charnwood, an advance by allied ground forces into the northern area of the city as far as the river Orne.
		It was decided to incorporate into the operation close support by heavy bombers along the lines of an operation on 7.7.44 that had resulted in allied occupation of northern areas of the city.
	www.lib.uea.ac.uk /lib/libinf/find/archives/zuckerman/bsgf.htm (4319 words)

	The Mace - August 20, 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the costly and slow expansion of the beachheads of June and July, the campaign became a rapidly changing battle where situational maps had to be discarded and drawn anew each day.
		The Allies launched Operation Totalize, whereby a combined effort of the Canadian Army in the northeast and the American Third Army in the southeast would close off the pocket around Falaise and trap the remnants of a dozen divisions.
		As the operation began, the German units in the pocket were finally given permission to withdraw.
	www.poeland.com /tanks/scenarios/mace (513 words)

	Operation Totalize: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Operation Totalize
		Operation Totalize: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Operation Totalize
		During World War 2, Operation Totalize (Allies, 1944) was a ground attack on 7 August 1944 by Canadian and Polish forces to breakout from the Normandy beachhead along the Caen-Falaise road.
		Although the attack failed in its objective, it did serve as a spoiling attack, disrupting German forces massing for the Luttich[?] attack.
	www.encyclopedian.com /op/Operation-Totalize.html (84 words)

	WWII General And Operations #2 quiz
		Which was the Operational Code-Name for the evacuation of the British and French troops at Dunkirk?
		Which was the German Operational Code-Name for the German offensive in the Ardennes, 'The Battle of the Bulge' December 16 1944?
		Which is the Operational Code-Name for the USAAF bombing of the Ploesti oil fields in Romania?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz154691c8820.html (276 words)

	JMH Abstracts: Vol. 67, No. 1
		This study of French military operations in North Germany highlights the breakdown of Napoleonic strategy in 1813, and demonstrates that the Allied defense of Berlin in 1813 played a significant role in Napoleon's ultimate expulsion from Germany.
		Because Operation Totalize did not result in the early conclusion of the campaign, some suggest that the Canadians could have fought more effectively.
		When five months later a hostage rescue operation was finally mounted, it was so conceived that the U.S. could call it off at any step along the way.
	www.smh-hq.org /jmh/volumes/jmh671/abs671.html (734 words)

	THE ROAD TO FALAISE
		"Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under or through the enemy," General George Patton said.
		The second phase of the operation degenerated into chaos as hundreds of tanks, Kangaroos, and wheeled vehicles tried to find their way through dense clouds of smoke and dust.
		On a wooded hill Gen. Maczek dubbed "Maczuga" ("the Mace"), the Poles, supported by the 4th Medium Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery, threw back repeated German attacks, running short of food, fuel, and ammunition, until they were relieved by the Canadian Grenadier Guards on August 21.
	www.espritdecorps.ca /new_page_234.htm (1314 words)

	Operation Lüttich - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During World War II, Operation Lüttich was a counterattack launched by German forces on the left flank of the Allied lodgment at Normandy beginning on 7 August, 1944.
		An Allied counterattack (Operation Totalize) cut off the attacking forces, forming the "Chambois pocket."
		This World War II article is a stub.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Operation_L%FCttich (104 words)

	Chronology : In Desperate Battle - World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Operation Goodwood/Atlantic - attack to secure Vaucelles and Colombelles and the rest of Caen.
		Canadian General Guy Simonds launches Operation Totalize and uses artificial moonlight and armoured personnel carriers.
		The Operation succeeds but takes too long to complete and much of the German forces escape to fight again in Holland.
	www.valourandhorror.com /DB/CHRON (287 words)

	Second World War Books Review
		The author chooses a relatively familiar topic, Operation Totalize, the Canadian operation that defeated German defenses on the eastern end of the Normandy front, and breathes new life into it.
		If any event during Operation TOTALIZE can be said to have finally doomed the German hold on the area north of the Laison River, it was the defence of St. Aignan-de-Cramesnil by 1 Northamptonshire Yeomanry and 1 Black Watch.
		The planners of the operation pinned many of their hopes on this attack, expecting its success would be necessary for the armored divisions to be able to roll to their objectives.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/archives/050619.shtml (5645 words)

	[Note: This manuscript was prepared during the Korean War by the deployed combat historians assigned to the Military ...
		The overall operation consisted of two parts, first, a withdrawal, which started on the night of 16 August 1944 after the failure of the Mortain counterattack, and second, a breakout, which started on the night of 19 August 1944 after Allied troops closed the pocket.
		During the second phase, the breakout operations conducted during the hours of darkness on two successive nights were the result for the most part of individual, fragmented efforts.
		A failure in a night operation generally has a greater moral effect on the executing troops than a similar failure in the daytime.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/237ACY.htm (3667 words)

	Operation Totalise - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Operation Totalise - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		During World War II, Operation Totalise (Allies, 1944) was a ground attack on 7 August, 1944 by British, Canadian and Polish forces to breakout from the Normandy beachhead along the Caen-Falaise road.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Operation Totalise contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Operation_Totalize (101 words)

	Military History: Second World War: Liberation of France: Falaise
		The Canadians, participating in Operation Spring, were to attack Verrières, a tactically important high point that controlled the road south of Caen.
		On 23 July, as the battles of Operations Atlantic and Spring were winding down, Headquarters 1st Canadian Army was activated.
		On the night of 7 August, the new operation, Totalize, commenced.
	www.lermuseum.org /ler/mh/wwii/inland.html (1185 words)

	OPERATION TOTALIZE Battlefield Tour 2 Canadian Corps Operations Caen-Falaise :: British & German :: RESEARCH PAPERS ...
		2 Canadian Corps operations astride the road Caen-Falaise 7-8 August 1944.
		The planning and operations are covered in detail 86pp.
		Operation Citadel, A Text and Photo Album, Volume 2 The North
	www.landmarkmilitarybooks.com /OPERATION-TOTALIZE-Battlefield-Tour-2-Canadian-Corps-Operations-Caen-Falaise-pr-1719.html (134 words)

	Battle of Normandy : Normandy Invasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, began with the amphibious Allied landings at Normandy, France, early in the morning of June 6, 1944, and continued into the following weeks with a land campaign to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Normandy bridgehead.
		Key to this overarching strategic effort was the local feint using dummy weaponry and forces to simulate a landing further east in the Pas de Calais, Operation Fortitude.
		June 25th - 29th Operation Epsom, an offensive to the west of Caen, repulsed by the German defenders.
	www.termsdefined.net /no/normandy-invasion.html (1325 words)

	1944
		Montgomery launches Operation 'Goodwood' 40 miles east of Caen, during which 4,500 Allied aircraft pound the German positions with 7,000 tons of bombs.
		The Canadians launch Operation 'Totalize' South of Caen, with 600 tanks and 720 guns, after 3,462 tons of bombs have been dropped on the German lines by 1,020 RAF planes.
		The allies launch Operation 'Dragoon', a combined assault on the South coast of France from Toulon to Nice.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1944western.asp (3402 words)

	WWII Generals and Operations #1 quiz
		In July of 1943 which U.S. Army was,'Born at sea and Baptized in Blood' (It was the first U.S. Army to see combat in Europe in World War II.
		The air attack on Amiens Prison by the RAF to release resistance prisoners held there by the Germans occurred on 8th February 1944.
		After WWII ended in 1945, victorious Russia and American intelligence teams began a treasure hunt throughout occupied Germany for Military and Scientific booty.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz8942109498.html (236 words)

	Operation Währung -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A small number of German agents infiltrated (additional info and facts about Allied) Allied lines in (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American uniforms.
		These agents then used an existing (A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party) Nazi intelligence network to attempt to bribe rail and port workers to disrupt Allied supply operations.
		See (additional info and facts about Operation Greif) Operation Greif.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Op/Operation_W%E4hrung.htm (74 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Armoured Warrior - Historical Notes
		It is, however, closely based on the experiences of units of the First Canadian Army in combat with German forces in the northern part of France during late August 1944.
		These operations have become known as the battle of the Falaise Gap.
		This was the climax of the campaign that had begun with the Allied invasion of the Normandy beaches on the French coast of the English Channel ten weeks before, on June 6, 1944.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/history.html (928 words)

	Canada at War
		This was a precursor to Operation Sea Lion, Hitler's plan to capture England.
		It was designed to entrap the 12th division in between the Americans from behind and the Canadian forces at Falaise.
		By the end of Operation Overlord, Allied casualties included 150,000 troops, 1,500 tanks, 5,300 ships and landing craft, 12,000 aircraft, and 20,000 airborne troops while the Allies managed to land 155000 soldiers, 6000 vehicles, and 3600 tonnes of supplies on Normandy's beaches.
	www.secondworldwar.co.uk /canada.html (1648 words)

	falaise
		The Americans bring their troops northwards, while the British and Canadian units, as the 21st Army Group, go south and block the retreating route of the Germans, but speed was the time factor.
		On August 8th, Operation Totalize began when the British/Canadian broke out from the south of Caen, and headed for Falaise.
		The next month the allies were ready for their next giant operation.
	falaiseng.bravepages.com /falaise.htm (1787 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: No Holding Back: Operation Totalize, Normandy, August 1944: Books: Brian A. Reid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Buy this book with Kursk in Normandy: Operation Goodwood 1944 by Perry Moore today!
		'A breakthrough has occurred near Caen the like of which we have never seen.' This stark assessment, made by a senior German officer on the evening of 8th August 1944, was the German reaction to Operation TOTALIZE, the Canadian attack planned and led by General Guy Simonds that threatened to trap the German army.
		Handsomely illustrated with maps, photographs and specially commissioned graphics of armoured vehicles and weapons, this major work is the first new study of a key Canadian operation in Normandy to appear for many years that is based on original research in primary sources.
	www.amazon.co.uk /No-Holding-Back-Operation-Totalize/dp/1896941400 (812 words)

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