CSPAN3 World War II Combat Chaplains August 14, 2014
Army commander tells waters, this is the first ever meeting of polish and american soldiers on a battlefield. So the two coordinate to snap trap shut for the germans and they will do so, but the germans have continued trying to attack furiously eastward to get out of there. Collectively this part of the battle of normandy is known as the falasie gap. Its roughly around 1944. The german losses have been terrible. 25,000 to 50,000 men captured, 10,000 dead in the pocket alone. Its a concentrated area so youre talking about enormous destruction by allied artillery, allied air, allied ground force...