Microsoft Close Combat Video Games User Manual


 
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Close Combat
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
O
rne 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)