Atlantic pockets information

In World War II, the Atlantic pockets were locations along the coasts of the Netherlands, Belgium and France chosen as strongholds by the occupying German...

The Royan pocket (French: Poche de Royan) was one of the Atlantic pockets towards the end of World War II, an isolated position held by German troops...

Atlantic pockets in France, in Dunkirk and La Rochelle (after the Allied siege). The Atlantic Pocket of Lorient surrendered on 10 May. The Atlantic Pocket...

Alsace Liberation of Strasbourg Colmar Pocket Bitche [fr] Apr 1945 Atlantic pockets: Royan May 1945 Atlantic pockets: Dunkirk La Rochelle Lorient Saint-Nazaire...

Rochelle and other harbours such as Royan and Saint-Nazaire, became "Atlantic pockets" still occupied by the Germans, which were bypassed by the main thrust...

and isolated locations across Europe, such as Denmark, Norway, the Atlantic pockets in France and the British Channel Islands. However, in addition to...

Alsace Liberation of Strasbourg Colmar Pocket Bitche [fr] Apr 1945 Atlantic pockets: Royan May 1945 Atlantic pockets: Dunkirk La Rochelle Lorient Saint-Nazaire...

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in hiding and evaded capture into the 1980s. Alpine Fortress Atlantic pockets Atlantic Wall Czechoslovak border fortifications Festung Norwegen Fortress...

England. On 25 and 26 May, the Luftwaffe focused their attention on Allied pockets holding out at Calais, Lille, and Amiens, and did not attack Dunkirk. Calais...

or reduce the remaining pockets of German resistance on the French Atlantic coast. In March 1945, the FFO were renamed Atlantic Army Detachment (French:...

Rommel in charge of developing fortifications all along Hitler's proclaimed Atlantic Wall in anticipation of landings in France. The Allies failed to accomplish...

The Colmar Pocket (French: Poche de Colmar; German: Brückenkopf Elsass) was the area held in central Alsace, France, by the German Nineteenth Army from...

ISBN 0-7183-0349-0 Holland, James. The Rise of Germany. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8021-2397-8 Holmes, Richard, ed. "France:...

eventually the Americanism Phoney War became favoured on both sides of the Atlantic, probably (especially in the British Empire and Commonwealth) in large...

the German state. At Hitler's death, German armies remained in the Atlantic pockets of La Rochelle, St Nazaire, Lorient, Dunkirk and the Channel Islands;...

zone libre in time. On the morning of May 28, German patrols defeated pockets of resistance around the Rue Solférino, the Rue Nationale, and the Haute-Deûle...

its naval superiority to bear – as most of the fleet was engaged in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and a substantial proportion had been detached to support...

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Hürtgen Forest Aachen Queen Scheldt Bulge Nordwind 2nd Alps Colmar Pocket Atlantic Pockets Germany Blackcock Veritable Grenade Blockbuster Lumberjack Remagen...

Hürtgen Forest Aachen Queen Scheldt Bulge Nordwind 2nd Alps Colmar Pocket Atlantic Pockets Germany Blackcock Veritable Grenade Blockbuster Lumberjack Remagen...

Dutch regrouped and then launched effective counter-attacks. Isolated pockets of German troops, led by Hans von Sponeck, retreated to the nearby dunes...

the Allies and to provide a base to support submarine operations in the Atlantic through an occupation of the island. Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, a naval...