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Western Europe: battle reports from Normandy for July 11/12, reports from 9th SS...

Catalogue reference: HW 1/3062

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HW 1/3062
Date
1944 July 12
Description

Western Europe: battle reports from Normandy for July 11/12, reports from 9th SS Panzer Division; Panzer Lehr Division withdraws from front line in St Lo area in face of Allied pressure, July 12; battle reports from 2nd Parachute Corps north of St Lo on July 11, heavy German losses and Germans unable to contain future Allied advances unless reserves were brought up; Germans aware that Allies were using Cherbourg harbour from morning of July 12

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
c/7075
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Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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