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The battle of the Mons pocket was an engagement fought between Allied and German forces during late August and early September 1944. It formed part of the final stages of the rapid Allied advance across France and Belgium .
Many of the surviving members of the 7th Army were captured in early September during the Battle of the Mons Pocket. During the autumn of 1944, the 7th Army adopted a defensive posture in the Eifel region on the Belgian and Luxembourgian border while Hitler husbanded forces for a winter offensive on the Western Front.
The Falaise pocket or battle of the Falaise pocket (German: Kessel von Falaise; 12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. Allied forces formed a pocket around Falaise, Calvados , in which German Army Group B , consisting of the 7th Army and the Fifth Panzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe ...
Battle of the Mons pocket [2] 2 September 1944 Tournai: 3 September 1944 ... was earlier recaptured by German forces on 16–21 December 1944 during the Battle of the ...
Battle of Arracourt; Battle of Dompaire; Battle of Marseille; Battle of the Mons pocket; Battle of the Nijmegen salient; Battle of Toulon (1944) British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign; British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany; Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II; Battle of Broekhuizen
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st ...
In late August 1944 Straube took command of a provisional army made up of approximately 70,000 personnel. This force suffered heavy casualties during the Battle of the Mons Pocket , with approximately 3,500 Germans being killed and 25,000 taken prisoner.
Pages in category "1944 in Belgium" ... Battle of the Mons pocket; Battle of the Scheldt; C. Chronology of the liberation of Belgian cities and towns during World War II;