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In British and American histories of the Second World War, the German Operation Lüttich is known as the Mortain counter-attack, which Hitler ordered to regain territory gained by the First United States Army during Operation Cobra by reaching the coast of the Avranches region, which is at the base of the Cotentin peninsula, in order to isolate ...
By August 7, the German counterattack was making good progress, ground fog favored the attack and prevented the Typhoons from being used. The 30th US Infantry Division was encircled by the German armored units on a hill near Mortain. But at midday on August 7, the fog lifted and excellent flying weather set in.
In August 1944, Mortain was the site of an important battle between the German and American forces. Over a period of six nights the 30th Infantry Division fought (with one radio with dying batteries) against the German Panzer counter-attack of Operation Lüttich, to preserve the breakout established in Operation Cobra. The defence failed and ...
Operation Martin 1944 - German planned attack of the Ardennes region as proposed by Gerd von Rundstedt; rejected by Adolf Hitler for being too conservative; Operation Messer 1944 - German mining of the Ligurian Sea off Northern Italy; Operation Morgenröte 1944 - German counterattack to the Allied invasion at Anzio and Nettuno, Italy
Closing the Falaise-Argentan Pocket and the Mortain counterattack 6–17 August 1944 Map of the Battle of Cambrai – German counter-offensive. A counterattack is a tactic employed in response to an attack, with the term originating in "war games". [1]
On 10 and 11 August the 2nd Battalion, 120th Infantry, isolated by the German counterattack at Mortain, received supplies by air drop. [77] A C-47 transport. On 15 August, SHAEF made available an allocation of air transport capable of delivering up to 2,000 long tons (2,000 t) per day to the Le Mans area from airbases in the UK.
Hastily organized into new divisions, these infantrymen lacked training and sometimes even weapons. Despite an immense German effort in the face of intense Allied bombing to build the necessary stocks for the offensive, there were shortages of fuel, ammunition, weapons and manpower by the scheduled date of the counterattack.
Beyond the town another 1,150 German soldiers were killed and the Germans lost 96 armored combat vehicles and trucks. [89] The U.S. 2nd Armored Division destroyed 64 German tanks and 538 other German combat vehicles during Operation Cobra. [90] The U.S. 2nd Armored Division suffered 49 tank losses in the process. [90]