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low-water markJune 20 (D+14)(D+14) June 20(D+14) June 20
(D+35) July 11
(D+48) July 24Allies captureCherbourg
June 27, 1944Allies capture Le Havre
September 12, 1944June 22June 18June 12July 3
Allies capture Caen
July 19, 1944Allies capture Saint-Lô
July 18, 1944Mulberry BJune 9 – November 19, 1944 (as completed)Mulberry AJune 9–19, 1944 (as planned)21 ST ARMY GROUP
U.S. 1ST ARMY MontgomeryAND BRITISH 2ND ARMYU.S. 1BradleyST ARMYBRITISH 2DempseyND ARMYGERMAN 7Dollmann, HausserTH ARMY15 GERMANTH ARMY
SalmuthARMY GROUP B
7 TH AND 15 TH ARMIES
Schweppenburg (Eberbach) PANZER GROUP WEST Rommel (Kluge)
FRANCE0 mi 5 10
0 km 105
June 1944 features are shown.Allied advance
Railway
CanalGerman-occupied territory,
midnight June 6, 1944
Allied-held territory,
midnight June 6, 1944
Allied-held position, midnight June 6, 1944Front Line
June 20, 1944 (D+14)
July 11, 1944 (D+35)
July 24, 1944 (D+48)NORMANDY: EXPANDING
THE BEACHHEAD
June 6 – July 24, 1944THE MAP ABOVE shows the slow expansion of the Allied
beachhead in Normandy from D-Day (June 6, 1944) to July 24.
To the west, troops of the U.S. First Army—led by Omar
Bradley and later part of his 12th Army Group—fought their
way in June up the Cotentin Peninsula to the deepwater port
of Cherbourg. To the east, British and Canadian forces of
Montgomery’s 21st Army Group met with stiff opposition
from German panzer divisions around Caen. American
soldiers encountered similar resistance as they pushed south
from Carentan, below Utah Beach. Although the tangled
hedgerows impeded their progress, they took the town of
Saint-Lô on July 18. From here, Operation Cobra was launched
on July 25, which successfully broke through the German lines.The Slow
Breakthrough
the forbidding bocage, consisting of low fields
surrounded by dense hedgerows that shel-
tered German snipers, machine gunners, and
anti-tank units. Not until June 27 did American
troops seize the deepwater port of Cherbourg,
which German demolition teams rendered use-
less until later that year.
Another important objective, heavily defend-
ed Caen, was not taken on D-Day, as Mont-
gomery planned, and held out against repeated
attacks. On June 13, the British Seventh Ar-
mored Division tried to outflank Caen but was
repulsed at Villers-Bocage by elements of the
First and Second SS Panzer Divisions. Allied
bombers blasted Caen on July 6, killing many
French civilians but few Germans, who with-
drew south of the city and resisted tenaciouslyNG MAPS