This article is about the 1944 Battle for Brest in France. For other uses, see Battle of Brest.
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Battle for Brest
Part of Operation Overlord, Battle of Normandy
A US M18 Hellcat of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion in the streets of Brest in September 1944
The Battle for Brest was fought in August and September 1944 on the Western Front during World War II. Part of the overall Battle for Brittany and the Allied plan for the invasion of mainland Europe called for the capture of port facilities, in order to ensure the timely delivery of the enormous amount of war materiel required to supply the invading Allied forces. It was estimated that the 37 Allied divisions to be on the continent by September 1944 would need 26,000 tons of supplies each day.[2] The main port the Allied forces hoped to seize and put into their service was Brest, in northwestern France.
^ abBllumenson 1961, p. 653.
^Kirkpatrick, Charles (1993). D-Day: Operation Overlord: From the Landings at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris. Smithmark. ISBN 0-8317-2188-X.
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