Air attack precedes new American offensive in Normandy.
Air attack precedes new American offensive in Normandy. Black smoke rises from hits scored on Nazi positions by 3,000 Allied planes which poured 6,000 tons of explosives on enemy lines west of St. Lo preceding the launching of a new American offensive in Normandy July 25, 1944. The next day, U.S. tanks and infantry broke through the main German line, capturing Marigny, four miles south of the St. Lo-Periers ...
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NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies