Normandy (where the pictures are from) was the Climactic battle of the Western front. This was the only time the Allies faced the Germans at full strength. The Germans could never make up the losses incurred during the ~ 2 month battle, particularly in AFV’s. ~145 tiger tanks (1’s and 2’s) were sent into the may lay. After the victorious landings the allies suffered some severe defeats in and around Caen which was finally taken on 8-6-44. The fighting was ferocious as the allies lost nearly 60 thousand men dead in Normandy including airmen. The Germans were finally trapped in the Falaise Pocket which ended the Battle of Normandy with a decisive German defeat in which they lost > 60 thousand men killed, prisoner and missing and most of their heavy equipment.
Below is a short pictorial of the fighting in and around Caen in Normandy. In which the British and Canadian at great expense in both men and equipment overcame the bulk of the German Armor.
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