Lorraine 1944: Patton vs Manteuffel (Osprey Campaign 75)
Osprey Publishing | 2000 | ISBN: 1841760897 | English | 98 Pages | PDF | 46,2 MB
Osprey's examination of the confrontation between the US Army and German forces in Lorraine during World War II (1939-1945). In the a~ of the defeat in Normandy in the summer of 1944, Hitler planned to stymie the Allied advance by cutting off Patton's Third Army in the Lorraine through a great Panzer offensive. But Patton's aggressive tactics continued to thwart German plans and led to a concatenation of violent armored battles. The battle-trained Wehrmacht confronted the better-equipped and wagerer-trained US Army. The Germans managed to re-fix a fragile defensive line but could not lodge the US Army from establishing bridgeheads in addition the Moselle along Germany's westward frontier.
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