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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 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 ...
Mons: Battle of the Mons pocket [2] 2 September 1944 Tournai: 3 September 1944 Halle [3] 3 September 1944 Aalst [4] 3 September 1944 Geraardsbergen [5] 3 September 1944 Zottegem [6] 3 September 1944 Brussels: Belgium's largest city and de jure capital. The allied liberation of this city allowed the Belgian government in exile to return to the ...
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 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
Battle of the Lys (1940) M. Battle of the Mons pocket; R. Battle of Remagen; S. Siege of Saïo; Battle of the Scheldt; W. Western Allied invasion of Germany
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