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Panzer Campaigns is a series of operational level wargames originally developed by John Tiller Software, and currently by Wargame Design Studio. The games were originally published until 2010 by HPS Simulations, then self published by John Tiller Software until being bought out by Wargame Design Studio in 2021, after Tiller's death. [1]
8 Corps: Normandy to the Baltic. MLRS Books. ISBN 978-1-905696-25-3. {}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ; Lt-Col H.F. Joslen, Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War, 1939–1945, London: HM Stationery Office, 1960/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2003, ISBN 1-843424-74-6.
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 ...
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 ( D-Day ) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune).
The Panzers & the Battle of Normandy: June 5th – July 20th, 1944. Bayeux: Editions Heidmal. ISBN 978-2-84048-135-5. Churchill, Winston (1951) [1948]. The Second World War: Closing the Ring. Vol. V. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 396150. Copp, Terry (2007). The Brigade: The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War II. Stackpole Military ...
Armed forces during the Battle of Normandy in 1944 D-Day Overlord; Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1. "The Assault Landings in Normandy : Order of Battle British Second Army" (PDF). Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.
The 10th SS Panzer Division suffered 403 men killed, 1,263 men wounded and 470 missing in July; had 27 Panzer IV and 25 StuG III operational on 9 July; 17 Panzer IV and eight StuGs on 12 July. schwere-SS Panzer Battailon 102 had 25 operational Tiger tanks when it went into action on 9 July, 14 on 11 July and ten a day later. [21]
Band of Brothers, an HBO miniseries, features the battle in its third episode, "Carentan", portraying the 506th PIR's part in the battle. The battle was also featured in the first two Brothers in Arms video games. The original Company of Heroes game also featured this battle in the Normandy campaign.