A French Legend
Foret domaniale d' Ecouves Region, France
August 13, 1944
As part of U.S. General Haislip's XV Corp, the French 2nd Armored Division had taken up Patton's drive east to encircle the German forces now becoming congested in the Falaise region of France. Wanting to consolidate gains and gain a staging area for a possible pinch point, General LeCerc is ordered to take the town of Alencon. Against stiffening resistance, the French liberate the city by August 12th, thereby reducing the distance between them and the northern Allied forces under Montgomery to around 55 kilometers. To the north of Alencon, however, is a heavily forested region, and it is here that elements of Panzer Group Eberbach deploys. The heavy forest reduces the Allied advantage in the air, and the tight roads make for excellent ambush points.
Realizing the advantages the forested region gave the German defenders; General LeClerc breaks his division into three groups and starts probing for a weak point. His goal is to break out of the forest and enter the more open region in a drive on the town of Argentan. This, if taken, will nearly close a ring around the defending German 7th Army.
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