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(4) Caen (Codename: Potato)

On D-Day, each beachhead and army had their own objectives. The combination of British and Canadian infantry landing at Juno and Sword beaches were focussed towards the villages and towns surrounding Caen, one of the largest cities in the region. Despite rapid advances by Commando and Infantry forces in the early days of the Invasion of France, Operation after Operation failed to gain entry to Caen itself, and by the time Caen was finally encircled, a majority of the city was destroyed. On the outskirts of the city where it was first attacked by British and Canadian infantry, there was considerably less destruction, but buildings were still on the verge of collapse, roads were saturated with rubble, and the defending Wehrmacht were densely dug in. The rest of Caen would take considerably longer to liberate.

Copyright 2016 Will Ward.
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