Battle of Saint-Lô
The Battle of Saint-Lô is one of the three conflicts in the , which took place between July 7 and 19, 1944, just before Operation Cobra. Saint-Lô had fallen to Germany in 1940, and, after the Invasion of Normandy, the Americans targeted the city, as it served as a strategic crossroads. American bombardments caused heavy damage (up to 95% of the city was destroyed) and a high number of casualties, which resulted in the martyr city being called "The Capital of Ruins", popularized in a report by Samuel Beckett.
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Battle of Saint-Lô
The Battle of Saint-Lô is one of the three conflicts in the , which took place between July 7 and 19, 1944, just before Operation Cobra. Saint-Lô had fallen to Germany in 1940, and, after the Invasion of Normandy, the Americans targeted the city, as it served as a strategic crossroads. American bombardments caused heavy damage (up to 95% of the city was destroyed) and a high number of casualties, which resulted in the martyr city being called "The Capital of Ruins", popularized in a report by Samuel Beckett.
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Die Schlacht um Saint-Lô fand ...... enkopfes in der Normandie bei.
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La bataille de Saint-Lô est un ...... juste avant l'Opération Cobra.
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The Battle of Saint-Lô is one ...... in a report by Samuel Beckett.
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Битва за Сэн-Ло — сражение в р ...... al of Ruins» («Столица руин»).
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29th Infantry Division: 3,706
30th Infantry Division: 3,934
35th Infantry Division: 2,437
For the period July 7–22
Total XIX Corps: 3,000+ killed
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Saint-Lô, 95% destroyed after the 1944 bombardments, known as The Capital of Ruins.
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Total XIX Corps: 3,000+ killed
11,000+
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Charles H. Corlett
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Charles H. Gerhardt
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Dietrich Kraiß
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Eugen Meindl
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Leland Hobbs
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Otto Baum
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Paul W. Baade
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Battle of Saint-Lô
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the Normandy Campaign, World War II
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Allied victory
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Die Schlacht um Saint-Lô fand ...... enkopfes in der Normandie bei.
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La bataille de Saint-Lô est un ...... juste avant l'Opération Cobra.
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The Battle of Saint-Lô is one ...... in a report by Samuel Beckett.
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Битва за Сэн-Ло — сражение в р ...... al of Ruins» («Столица руин»).
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Bataille de Saint-Lô
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Battle of Saint-Lô
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Schlacht um Saint-Lô
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Битва при Сен-Ло
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Battle of Saint-Lô
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