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29th
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43rd (Wessex)
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,
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operation EPSOM
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,
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Caen offensive
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tiredness
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clears Mont Pinçon
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50th (Northumbrian)

D-Day landings
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,
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,
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brought in to strengthn the invasion force
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moves inland
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advance on Tilly-sur-Seulles
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,
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,
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,
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at Cristot
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tiredness
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51st (Highland)

brought in to strengthen invasion force
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attacks east of Caen
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lack of leadership
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and operation GOODWOOD
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and operation TOTALIZE
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and the Falaise gap
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59th (Staffordshire), at Thury-Harcourt
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Armoured and Infantry Regiments

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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5th Black Watch
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,
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County of London Yeomanry
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2nd Bn (Westminster Dragoons)
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,
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4th
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Devonshire Regiment
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Dorsetshire Regiment

1st Bn
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4th Bn
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,
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22nd Dragoon Guards
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,
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,
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5th Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
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,
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6th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment
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East Riding Yoemanry
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East Yorkshire Regiment
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nd Bn
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Essex Yeomanry
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2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
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Green Howards
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6th Bn
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7th Gordon Highlanders 5th Bn
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Hampshire Regiment
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1st Bn
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1st Hussars
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8th Hussars
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King’s Own Scottish Borderers
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2nd Bn
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6th Bn
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,
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2nd King’s Own Shropshire Light Infantry
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,
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King’s Regiment
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5th Bn
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Norfolk Regiment 1st Bn
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,
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2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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,
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Parachute Regiment

9th Bn
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12th Bn
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1/7th Queens Infantry
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,
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,
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Queen’s Royal Regiment
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3rd Reconnaissance Regiment
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Rifle Brigade
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4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
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13th/18th Royal Hussars
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Royal Scots Fusiliers
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Royal Tank Regiment

1st Bn
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,
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,
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5th Bn
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Royal Ulster Rifles
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2nd Bn
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Royal West Kents

1st Bn
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4th Bn
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79th Scottish Horse
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Scots Guards Tank Bn
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Somerset Regiment
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,
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South Lancashire Regiment 1st Bn
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,
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Staffordshire Yeomanry
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,
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,
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Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders
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Suffolk Regiment 1st Bn
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,
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Tyneside Scottish
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Royal Artillery

field regiments

7th
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147th
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Royal Engineers

73rd Field Company
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British Broadcasting Company (BBC), message to French Resistance
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British Expeditionary Force
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British Secret Intelligence Service
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,
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Brittany, Patton moves into
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Broadhurst, Air Vice-Marshal Harry
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,
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Broke, Vera
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Brooke, Field-Marshal Sir Alan
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,
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,
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,
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misgivings over a cross-Channel invasion
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,
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,
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and operation ROUNDUP
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and operation RANKIN
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not given Supreme Command
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on Eisenhower
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and Montgomery
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at Montgomery’s presentation of the plan
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D-Day
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on his commanders
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defends Montgomery
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and operation GOODWOOD
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,
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warns Montgomery about relations with Churchill
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advocates large-scale attack
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and the Falaise gap
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,
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support for Montgomery
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Brown, General
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Brown, Trooper John
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Brown, Corporal ‘Topper’
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,
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,
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,
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Bruce, Captain Hendrie
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Brussels, Guards Armoured Division reaches
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Bryant, Major Randall
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,
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,
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,
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,
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BUCCANEER, operation
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Bucknall, Lieutenant-General G.C.

lack of ability
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,
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,
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,
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attack on Villers-Bocage
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,
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,
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sacked
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,
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operation BLUECOAT
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,
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Bull, General ‘Pinky’
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Burnell, Sergeant
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Burrell, Jimmy
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Butcher, Commander
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,
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,
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,
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Germans flood area around
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German armour deployed around
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advance to D-Day
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,
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,
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,
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assaults on
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,
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,
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operation EPSOM
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failure to capture
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fall of
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,
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,
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bombing raid on
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,
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Caen Canal bridge
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,
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Cagny
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Cahagnolles
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Calvados
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Cambes
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Cambes Wood
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Cambry
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Canadian First Army
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,
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,
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,
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Americans in
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advance on Argentan
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,
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at Falaise
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,
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,
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,
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losses
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undermanning handicap
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Corps

II

operation GOODWOOD
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,
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attack on Bourgébus Ridge
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operation TOTALIZE
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Divisions

2nd Infantry

operation TRACTABLE
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captures Falaise
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Falaise gap
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3rd Infantry

recruitment
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D-Day
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,
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,
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,
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Caen offensive
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,
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operation ATLANTIC
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operation TOTALIZE
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operation TRACTABLE
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closes the Falaise gap
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4th Armoured

at the Falaise gap
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,
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commanding officer relieved
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Brigades

7th
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8th
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9th
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10th
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Regiments

Algonquin Regiment
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British Columbian Regiment
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Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
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Canadian Scottish Regiment
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Regina Rifle Regiment
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Royal Winnipeg Rifles
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South Saskatchewan Regiment
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Canaris, Admiral
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Canisy
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Cap de la Hague
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Carentan
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,
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,
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Carpiquet
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Carr, Major
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Carroll
, U.S.S.
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Carver, Lieutenant-Colonel Michael
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,
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,
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Casablanca conference
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casualties
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Caumont
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Cerbeck
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Chambois
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Channel Islands
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chaplains
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CHARNWOOD, operation
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Châteaubriant
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Cherbourg
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