Battle of Gembloux (1940)
(For the Eighty Years' War's battle, see Battle of Gembloux (1578).) The Battle of Gembloux (or Battle of the Gembloux Gap) was fought between French and German forces in May 1940. during the Second World War. On 10 May 1940, The Nazi German Wehrmacht (Defence Force), invaded Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Belgium under the operational plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). Allied armies responded with the Dyle Plan (Breda variant), intended to halt the Germans in Belgium, believing it to be the main German thrust. The Allies committed their best and most mobile to an advance into Belgium on 10 May and on 12 May, the Germans began the second part of Fall Gelb, the Manstein Plan an advance through the Ardennes, to reach the English Channel and cut off the Allied forces in Belgium.
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Battle of Gembloux (1940)
(For the Eighty Years' War's battle, see Battle of Gembloux (1578).) The Battle of Gembloux (or Battle of the Gembloux Gap) was fought between French and German forces in May 1940. during the Second World War. On 10 May 1940, The Nazi German Wehrmacht (Defence Force), invaded Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Belgium under the operational plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). Allied armies responded with the Dyle Plan (Breda variant), intended to halt the Germans in Belgium, believing it to be the main German thrust. The Allies committed their best and most mobile to an advance into Belgium on 10 May and on 12 May, the Germans began the second part of Fall Gelb, the Manstein Plan an advance through the Ardennes, to reach the English Channel and cut off the Allied forces in Belgium.
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(For the Eighty Years' War's b ...... l French contingent to escape.
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De Slag om Gembloers was een v ...... n in België ingesloten werden.
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La bataille de Gembloux est li ...... ent depuis la percée de Sedan.
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La battaglia di Gembloux, nota ...... azionali in piena evacuazione.
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讓布盧戰役(或稱讓布盧缺口戰役)是二次大戰中爆發於1940年5月的戰役,由法軍與德軍交戰。法国战术上胜利。
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/III Corps; a few hundred casualties
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~ 2,000 killed, wounded and missing
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1940-05-15
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2 panzer divisions
3 infantry divisions
3 motorised divisions
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The Gembloux Gap. The Belgian ...... rman breakthrough into France.
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IV Corps, a few hundred casualties.
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Gembloux, a municipality in the Belgian province of Namur
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(For the Eighty Years' War's b ...... the Allied forces in Belgium.
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De Slag om Gembloers was een v ...... n in België ingesloten werden.
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La bataille de Gembloux est li ...... ent depuis la percée de Sedan.
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La battaglia di Gembloux, nota ...... da sette divisioni corazzate.
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讓布盧戰役(或稱讓布盧缺口戰役)是二次大戰中爆發於1940年5月的戰役,由法軍與德軍交戰。法国战术上胜利。
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Bataille de Gembloux (1940)
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Battaglia di Gembloux
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Battle of Gembloux (1940)
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Slag om Gembloers (1940)
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讓布盧戰役 (1940年)
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Battle of Gembloux
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