The BRUTAL amp INTENSE Battle To Breakout Of Normandy WARNING GRAPHIC

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After four years of occupation, war was closing in on the small town of Saint-Lo. After a month of savage fighting, the Allies were in a virtual stalemate with elite German SS Units, boxed in along their Normandy Beachhead. U.S. General George S. Patton boasted Take St. Lo, and we will be in Paris within two weeks . • • St. Lo was now the prime objective for the U.S. First Army to break this stalemate. Before St. Lo could be taken it was necessary for the Americans to capture the commanding heights that surrounded it, including the prevailing Hill 192. From this peak the Germans held critical surveillance enabling them to monitor the Allies movements. • • The challenge ahead for the Americans was savage. General Joseph Lawton Collins, a veteran of the Pacific Theater, remarked that the irregular patchwork terrain called 'bocage' was as bad as anything he had seen on Guadalcanal. American tanks could not penetrate the thick walls to accompany infantry assaults. As a result, the infantry was compelled to go over the top, in near suicidal frontal attacks. Regardless of the challenge, Hill 192 was to be taken. Success was the key to the Allied breakout of Normandy… • Join us on Social Media Patreon: • / militology • / militology • The Militology Channel does it's best to produce historically accurate content for history enthusiasts. All content is carefully researched and sources shared. Images and footage of the actual events may not be 100% accurate due to availability, but we do our best. Some images and footage may be used for dramatic effect, but the narrative content adheres to historical accuracy based on available sources. Please reach out with any concerns around historical accuracy so we can incorporate feedback. We also want to hear your constructive interpretation of historical events in our video comments. • Contact: • [email protected] • Script Author: • Dejan Milivojevic • Sources: • Balkoski, Joseph. Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy. Stackpole Books, 2005. • Browning Maj. Earl, Operations of the 29th Infantry Division in the Attack and Capture of St. Lo, France, 13–18 July 1944. F.t Benning Infantry School, 1950. • Forty, Simon. Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen: Photographs From Wartime Archives. Pen and Sword, 2018. • Lee, Nigel De, and Peter Yates. Battle for St-Lô. Sutton Pub Limited, 2004. • Zaloga, Steven J. St Lô 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

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