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The Battle of Arras took place on 21 May 1940, during the Battle of France in the Second World War. Following the German invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May, French and British forces advanced into Belgium.
Born of desperation, the British tank attack at Arras on May 21, 1940 was a tactical failure with major strategic implications—and it may have helped to save the British army.
It was just before 12 pm on May 21, 1940, and the Battle of France was in full swing. The Allied armies were reeling before the Nazi onslaught, unable to match the blitzkrieg. Hepple was leading a scouting party on reconnaissance ahead of a British counterattack aimed at blunting that assault.
Encircled by the Germans in North-West France, the Battle of Arras, 21st May 1940, was a successful Allied counter-attack which allowed French and British tr...
South of the crossroads of Arras in the Pas de Calais region of France, British and German troops are buried alongside each other. They were casualties of a gutsy British armored counterattack on May 21, 1940, by two British tank regiments against General-Major Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division.
The Germans were vulnerable to a determined counterattack, but the only one that threatened the speeding panzers was by British tanks at Arras on 21 May. The Allies inflicted a stinging reverse on the SS Totenkopf division, but they quickly found themselves blocked by Rommel’s panzers.
The Frankforce was tasked with bolstering the Arras defences and mopping up German units in the southern and eastern suburbs. Of the 5th Division, one Brigade (the 13th) relieved the battered 23rd Division on the Scarpe River whilst the 17th Brigade was held back as a reserve.
The Battle of Arras was a counter-attack by British and French forces to halt the German advance and relieve the pressure on the Allied forces encircled at Dunkirk. The SS-Totenkopf-Division, commanded by Theodor Eicke, was among the German forces involved in the battle. On May 21, 1940, Allied forces launched an attack on the southern flank of ...
Fact File : Battle of Arras. 21 May 1940. Theatre: France. Area: The town of Arras in Northern France, on the River Scarpe south west of Lille. Players: Britain: 6th and 8th Battalions,...
The Battle of Arras, in 1940, was the first effective Allied counterattack against German forces in World War II. It was part of the Battle of France, in which the Nazis invaded France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.