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Western Europe: battle reports from Normandy front for July 11 from 1st SS Panzer...

Catalogue reference: HW 1/3058

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HW 1/3058
Date
1944 July 12
Description

Western Europe: battle reports from Normandy front for July 11 from 1st SS Panzer Corps and 21st Panzer Division, Allied build up east of River Orne leads Germans to expect large-scale attack, German attack south-west of Caen repulsed; battle report from10th SS Panzer Division south-west of Caen for July 11; 277th Infantry Division completes relief of 9th SS Panzer Division, July 10, combat report from 2nd SS Panzer Corps; call for GAF support as Allied forces penetrate just east of Caen during night of July 10/11; combat reports from 86th Corps and 21st Panzer Division for July 11; combat reports from western sector of Cherbourg Peninsula for July 11 for battle groups of 77th and 243rd Divisions; front line of Panzer Lehr Division as at July 11; Kesselring appeals to German High Command on June 30 for 700 tractors to give mobility to German forces which were outnumbered by a ratio of 10 to 1 in tanks and assault guns, a vast amount of immobilized German equipment had had to be destroyed to avoid it falling into Allied hands because there were no means of towing it away

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
c/7060
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Open Document, Open Description
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4466238/

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