have you any information on the battle of st. lo , France in world war 2.?

Answer 1

St. Lô, once a part of the grand designs of the French rulers Charlemagne and Napoleon, has a powerful and direct link 20th-century America, and especially to Western Virginia. The medieval Norman town, approximately 175 miles west of Paris, was the scene of a violent, decisive battle between American GIs and the entrenched German forces shortly after the Allied landings on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The American-led air force and ground troops of the 29th Division's 116th Infantry Regiment (which comprised many Virginians) liberated St. Lô on July 19, 1944.

The campaign left 95 percent of the town demolished, including much of the gorgeous Gothic cathedral of Notre Dame. St. Lô suffered more than any community in Normandy during WWII, but its people truly love Americans, whom they regard as their liberators.

Today, St. Lô is a thriving town of 25,000 in which the past is very much present. The mainly reconstructed city lies on a rocky hill, within and around the remains of the ancient ramparts that Charlemagne began in the ninth century. There, two medieval towers provide a panoramic view of the Vire Valley and its river, which has been vital to St. Lô's economic history. Nearby, Le Haras National, France's premier horse farm, was established by Napoleon in 1806.

La Madeleine, a restored 13th-century chapel, houses a public exhibit about the events of 1944. The town also has a touching monument to Major Thomas Howie, head of the 3rd Battalion of the 116th Infantry Regiment, who was killed during the Allies' final assault on the town.

Progressive St. Lô, the administrative seat of the County of La Manche, has set its sights on becoming a university town. It supports two business colleges, the Ecole de Gestion et de Commerce and the Ecole de Ventes. Normandy's rich soil has ensured St. Lô's prominence as an agricultural center as well. And dairy farms and apple orchards flourish there. The province's creamy cheeses and fiery apple brandy, Calvados, are celebrated worldwide, and the lush, pastoral countryside attracts tourists from all corners of the globe. Short distances from St. Lô are Mont Saint Michel, Monet's garden at Giverny and the American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer, which overlooks Omaha Beach, further memorialized in Steven Spielberg's 1998 film, “Saving Private Ryan.”



Chapter 1
THE JULY OFFENSIVE

ST-LO, capital of the department of Manche, can be used as one symbol for First U. S. Army's victory in a most difficult and bloody phase of the Campaign of Normandy: the "Battle of the Hedgerows," during the first three weeks of July I944. Other names figure in this battle. First Army soldiers will remember la Haye-du-Puits, Periers, Hill 192, like St-Lo, from a background of stubborn struggle for gains too often measured in terms of a few hundred yards, or of two or three fields, conquered against a bitterly resisting enemy.

Much more was at stake in the Battle of the Hedgerows than possession of a communications center on the Vire River. In June, First Army and British Second Army had won their beachheads and had captured Cherbourg (26 June). Supplies and reinforcements were building up for a powerful offensive, designed to break out of the Normandy pocket and scheduled to be mounted in the First Army zone. But more room and better jump-off positions for the crucial offensive were needed before this blow could be delivered. The attack that began in early July was planned to gain this ground, on a front of 25 miles. Four corps, employing ultimately 12 divisions, were involved in the effort. All these units faced similar problems of advance, and all contributed to the measure of success achieved. Therefore, in the larger tactical sense it would be unfair to identify the Battle of the Hedgerows with St-Lo and later military studies, treating the Campaign of Normandy in different scope, will give the operation in truer proportions. Here, one phase of the hedgerow battle can be used to illustrate, in tactical detail, the character of the larger action.

The advance which reached St-Lo is the story of XIX Corps, aided by the action of the 2d Division of V Corps on its left flank.


First Army's Problem

Answer 2

Normandy replaced into exciting, yet there have been lots of battles in ww2. in case you like one that replaced into merely as necessary yet isnt going to have a million/2 the class doing it attempt the conflict of england. no longer possibly one conflict so as to communicate, even though it replaced right into a brilliant air marketing campaign. could additionally do the conflict of the Bulge, or Stalingrad, or Coral sea, or halfway, or maybe Okinawa. Okinawa fantastically lots cemented Japan's destiny by way of fact the yankee Strategic bombers ought to attain all of the biggest cities from there.

Answer 3

St Lo? Guessing it was part off the Normandy invasion and would have been pretty full on.