France, Liberation of
France, Liberation of (1944–45).Following the invasion of Normandy, the breakout by Omar N. Bradley's U.S. First Army created conditions for mobile warfare that permitted the World War II Allied armies to liberate France by the late summer of 1944. In the aftermath of the American breakthrough of German lines, George S. Patton's newly activated U.S. Third Army swept west through the Brittany peninsula. Meanwhile, British and Canadian armies under Bernard Law Montgomery pushed further into Northern France. On 6 August, the Germans launched a large counterattack at Mortain to defeat the Americans and push them back into the English Channel. But the fighting ability of U.S. ground and air forces, advised of Berlin's plans by ULTRA intelligence, resulted in the German's defeat after two days of...
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