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  • Operation Charnwood
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Strength
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • 3(xsd:integer)
  • --07-07
  • Elements of 1 infantry division
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Partof
  • the Battle for Caen
planned by
Date
  • --07-09
Label
  • Caen
Commander
  • Miles Dempsey
  • Sepp Dietrich
  • John Crocker
  • Heinrich Eberbach
Name
  • Operation Charnwood
Caption
  • Location of Caen in Normandy, northern France
  • Troops of I Corps pick their way through the rubble of Caen
Outcome
  • Northern Caen captured, southern sectors remained in German hands and no bridgeheads established across the river.
long
  • 0(xsd:double)
Scope
  • Tactical Offensive
Casualties
  • 300(xsd:integer)
  • 3817(xsd:integer)
  • --07-08
  • Over 2,000 casualties
  • ~80 tanksref|Major Ellis, the British official campaign historian, states that about 80 tanks were either destroyed or put out of action during the operation.|group=nb
Result
  • *German defenders forced to withdraw from Caen; city north of the Orne is liberated *Allied forces unable to push beyond the Orneref|Historians Michael Reynolds, Charles Stacey, Simon Trew and Chester Wilmot all note how the bridges across the Orne had been either damaged or destroyed impeding further progress while Buckley and Ken Ford note that in addition German forces were dug-in on the opposite bank in position to block any such move south. In light of this Montgomery called off any advance beyond the Orne as further attacks would be too costly for the gains made.|group=nb *Heavy German manpower and material losses *French public opinion coup; civilians now believed the liberation of France is underway
Alt
  • Large-scale map of France and its neighbours, showing Caen on France's northwestern coast.
executed by
  • I Corps, Second Army
Place
  • North of Caen, the city and Carpiquet, Normandy, France
Conflict
  • Operation Charnwood
Objective
  • Capture of northern Caen, up to the Orne river, and establish bridgeheads into southern Caen
lat
  • 49(xsd:double)
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