c. 2,000 killed or captured c. 210 AFVs destroyed or captured
57th Infantry Division: 1,000 casualties including about 300 POW
Abbeville
class=notpageimage|
Abbeville, a commune in the Somme department, Picardie region, northern France
v
t
e
Battle of France
France
Royal Marine
Ardennes
Sedan
Montcornet
Maginot Line
Weygand Plan
Arras
Boulogne
Calais
Dunkirk
Dynamo
Wormhoudt
Abbeville
Lille
Paula
Fall Rot
Alps
Haddock Force
Cycle
Lagarde
Saumur
Aerial
Fall Braun
Netherlands
Maastricht
Mill
The Hague
Rotterdam
Zeeland
The Grebbeberg
Afsluitdijk
Rotterdam Blitz
Belgium
Fort Eben-Emael
K-W Line
Dyle Plan
David
Hannut
Gembloux
Lys
Ypres–Comines Canal
Luxembourg
Schuster Line
v
t
e
Western Front of World War II
Phoney War
River Forth
Saar
The Heligoland Bight
Wikinger
Luxembourg
Schuster Line
The Netherlands
Maastricht
Mill
The Hague
Rotterdam
Zeeland
The Grebbeberg
Afsluitdijk
Rotterdam Blitz
Belgium
Fort Eben-Emael
Hannut
David
Gembloux
La Lys
Ypres–Comines Canal
France
Sedan
Montcornet
Saumur
Arras
Boulogne
Calais
Dunkirk
Dynamo
Abbeville
Lille
Paula
1st Alps
Haddock Force
Britain
Kanalkampf
Adlertag
The Hardest Day
Battle of Britain Day
Sea Lion
1941–1943
Cerberus
Donnerkeil
Baedeker Blitz
Commando Raids
St Nazaire Raid
Dieppe Raid
1944–1945
Baby Blitz
Overlord
Chastity
Dragoon
Siegfried Line
Netherlands
Market Garden
Hürtgen Forest
Aachen
Queen
Scheldt
Bulge
Nordwind
2nd Alps
Colmar Pocket
Atlantic Pockets
Germany
Blackcock
Veritable
Grenade
Blockbuster
Lumberjack
Remagen
Cologne
Gisela
Undertone
Plunder
Varsity
Paderborn
Ruhr
TF Baum
Frankfurt
Würzburg
Kassel
Heilbronn
Nuremberg
Hamburg
Strategic campaigns
The Blitz
Defence of the Reich
Strategic Bombing Campaign
Raids on the Atlantic Wall
Battle of Atlantic
The Battle of Abbeville took place from 27 May to 4 June 1940, near Abbeville during the Battle of France in the Second World War. On 20 May, the 2nd Panzer Division advanced 56 mi (90 km) to Abbeville on the English Channel, overran the 25th Infantry Brigade of the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division and captured the town at 8:30 p.m. Only a few British survivors managed to retreat to the south bank of the Somme and at 2:00 a.m. on 21 May, the III Battalion, Rifle Regiment 2 reached the coast, west of Noyelles-sur-Mer.
The 1st Armoured Division (Major-General Roger Evans) arrived in France from 15 May without artillery, short of an armoured regiment and the infantry of the 1st Support Group, which had been diverted to Calais. From 27 May to 4 June, attacks by the Franco-British force south of the Abbeville bridgehead, held by the 2nd Panzer Division, then the 57th Infantry Division, recaptured about half of the area; the Allied forces lost many of their tanks and the Germans much of their infantry, some units running back over the River Somme. On 5 June, the divisions of the German 4th Army attacked out of the bridgeheads south of the Somme and pushed back the Franco-British divisions opposite, which had been much depleted by their counter-attacks, to the Bresle with many casualties.
In 1953, the British official historian, Lionel Ellis, wrote that the Allies lacked battlefield co-ordination, which contributed to the Allied failure to defeat the Germans and magnified the cost of lack of preparation and underestimation of the German defences south of the Somme. In 2001, Caddick-Adams also wrote of the chronic lack of battlefield communication within and between the British and French divisions, which was caused by a shortage of radios and led to elementary and costly tactical errors. The lack of communication continued after reinforcement by the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division (Major-General Victor Fortune) and French armoured and infantry divisions. The Germans had committed substantial forces to the bridgeheads, despite the operations in the north, that culminated in the Dunkirk evacuation (26 May – 3 June). The Somme crossings at Abbeville and elsewhere were still available on 5 June, for Fall Rot (Case Red), the final German offensive, which brought about the defeat of France.
and 22 Related for: Battle of Abbeville information
The BattleofAbbeville took place from 27 May to 4 June 1940, near Abbeville during the Battleof France in the Second World War. On 20 May, the 2nd Panzer...
It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the river Somme, it was the capital of Ponthieu. Abbeville is located on the river...
fought in the BattleofAbbeville. It did so without some of its infantry, which had earlier been diverted to the defence of Calais. At the end of the campaign...
The Abbeville massacre took place during the Battleof France in the French town ofAbbeville on 20 May 1940. 21 political prisoners, mainly foreign nationals...
another engagement at the BattleofAbbeville. List of French military equipment of World War II List of German military equipment of World War II Forczyk...
rank of captain became permanent. In late October, he returned to command of 10th company. As a company commander at Douaumont (during the Battleof Verdun)...
Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers. They were forced to adapt to new technologies and forged the direction of modern warfare...
Germans captured Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme River, cutting off the Allied troops in Northern France and Belgium. The Battleof Arras, a Franco-British...
The Battleof the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which...
at Abbeville was a battle fought between the Union Army and the Confederate Army in Lafayette County, Mississippi on August 23, 1864. The battle resulted...
the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic...
The Battleof Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the...
The Abbeville Airfield (French: Aérodrome d'Abbeville) or Abbeville Aerodrome (ICAO: LFOI) is an airfield serving Abbeville and located in Buigny-Saint-Maclou...
Battleof Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the...
The Battleof Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg,: 17 was a major battleof the Pacific War fought on the island...
The Battleof Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air...
the British or French governments. The Siege of Lille and the BattleofAbbeville began. The Battleof the Lys ended in German victory. 17,804 were evacuated...
The Battleof Aachen was a battleof World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 12 September and 21 October...
join the rest of the BEF. With their route blocked by the BattleofAbbeville, they were ordered to take up a defensive position west of the River Béthune...
Overlord was the codename for the Battleof Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during...
Global Information
France
United Kingdom
Germany
