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Allied Breakthrough Near Caen Expands As Villers Bocage Falls
Allied forces pressed from the 60 mile pocket below Caen advancing toward Aunay sur Odon and Villers Bocage. British columns by moonlight seized five towns near Villers Bocage while Allied air and naval行动 targeted bridges rail yards and ships in Le Havre and the Paris Loire Valley region. German reinforcements moved in as the front showed mixed progress with heavy battles on the Caen front and near Vire and Esquay Percy pockets.
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Caen
Aunay
Villers-Bocage
Percy
Bel- Bays
Biscay
Paris
Loire Valley
France
Le’Havre
Villers- Bocage
Vire
Normandy
Rzeszow
Red Army
Krakow
Old Poland
Vistula
Staszow
Ivan S. Konev
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Silesia
Marshal Miraonev
Jaroslawo
St. Pois
Vire- Esquay-Percy-Villedieu
Berlin
Cof Villers-Bocage
No Man’s Land
Aunay-sur-Odon
la Lande
Wilers-Bocage
Aumay-sur= Odon
Otne
Bernard ‘L. Montgomer
Falaise
Montgomery