Microsoft Close Combat Reference Manual page 89

88 Close Combat
The Falaise Pocket: August 13Ð20, 1944
Cherbourg
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.
U.S. 12th Army British 21st
Group Army Group
(Bradley) (Montgomery)
Caen
German
5th Panzer Army
Panzer Group Eberbach
Lisieux
Falaise
Argentan
Seine River