And the race to the rhine is on – Microsoft Close Combat User Manual

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Casualty rates for the Allied and Axis sides, along with French civilians,
average 10,000 a day, making the Battle of Normandy one of the
bloodiest battles ever fought. With these momentous events, the first
phase of the invasion is over

and the race to the Rhine is on.

Cherbourg

Falaise

Lisieux

Argentan

Seine River

Dives River

Orne R

iver

Vire River

The Falaise Pocket: August 13Ð20, 1944

Caen

German
5th Panzer Army
Panzer Group Eberbach

British 21st

Army Group

(Montgomery)

U.S. 12th Army

Group

(Bradley)

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