Commemorative Normandy Calendar

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Follow the progress of the battle. View the Twelvth Army Group HQ situation map day by day

June 1944

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June 5: Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel leaves for Herrlingen.
June 5: Paratroopers of the 82nd, 101st US and 8th British
Airborne board their aircrafts and gliders. Dropzone Normandy
and the Carentan Peninsula.
June 6: US, Canadian and British troops land at Omaha, Utah,
Gold, Sword and Juno beachheads in Normandy.
 

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Nightdrop on
the Carentan Peninsula by
US 82nd, 101st
and British 8th
Airborne units.

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US, British and
Canadian troops
land at Omaha,
Utah, Gold,
Sword and Gold
beachheads.

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Bayeux liberated
by units from Montgomery's 21st Army Group

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Units from 101st
US Airborne Div
liberate Carentan
 
 
 

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Wehrmacht
General Erich
Marcks, 84th
Corps get killed
in his staff car
north of St. Lô.

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Ohmsen and the
remaining crew
of St. Marcouf,
leave the battery
to reach current german perimeter

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US Gen. Collins 7th Corps takes
the fortress of Cherbourg.

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The Commandant of Cherbourg, Gen. Eric v. Schlieben
surrenders the
entire garrison.

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Commander of the german 7th Army, General Friedr. Dollmann
dies of a heart-
attack.

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General der WSS
Paul Hausser
becomes the new commander
of the 7th Army.

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July 1944

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July 3: Fieldmarshal Hans von Kluge relieves Fieldmarshal Gerd von Rundsted as OB West.
July 9: Montgomery's 21st Army Group liberates the city of Caen.
July 17: Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel badly wounded in his Staff car near Livarot and Vimoutieres.
July 20: The plot against Hitler at Wolfschanze in Rastenburg.
July 30: General George S. Patton and his 3rd Army breake out at Avrances.
 

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Hitler dismiss Fieldmarshal Gerd von Rundsted.
 

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Fieldmarshal
Hans von Kluge
relieves Field-
marshal Gerd
von Rundsted as
OB West.

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Montgomery's
21st ArmyGroup
finally liberates the city of Caen.

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Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel
badly wounded
in his Staff car,
near Livarot and
Vimoutiers.

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The plot against
Hitler in his
headquaters at
Wolfschanze, Rastenburg.
(Stauffenberg).

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Gen. George S.
Patton and his
3rd Army break
out at Avrances.

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August 1944

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August 7: Hiter appoints General
Coltits as commander of Paris.
August 21: The anihilation of an
entire army at Falaise.
August 25: General Choltits
surrenders Paris to the Allied.

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Hitler appoints Wehrmacht Gen.
von Choltits as commandant of Paris.

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The battle for
Falaise.
The Falaise Pocket

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The anihilation of an entire Army: The Falaise pocket
disaster.

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Patton and his 3rd Army
cross the Seinen river at Melun southeast
of Paris.

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Gen. von Coltits
surrenders Paris
and his garrison of 10.000 troops
to the Allied, fully intact.

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