Allies liberate Brittany with the exception of Brest, Lorient and Quiberon Peninsular.
Belligerents
United States
Germany
Commanders and leaders
Omar Bradley
George S. Patton
Troy H. Middleton
John Shirley Wood
Günther von Kluge
Paul Hausser
Wilhelm Fahrmbacher
Units involved
Twelfth United States Army Group
US Third Army
US VIII Corps
US 4th Armored Division
Army Group B
Seventh Army
XXV Army Corps
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Western Front (1944–1945)
Overlord
Chastity
Dragoon
Paris
Siegfried Line campaign
Channel Coast
Dieppe
Le Havre
Dunkirk
Boulogne
Calais
Market Garden
Lorraine
Aachen
Hürtgen Forest
Scheldt
Queen
Bulge
Nordwind
Blackcock
Colmar Pocket
Reichswald
Alps
Invasion of Germany
End of World War II in Europe
Operation Chastity was a World War II plan by the Allies to seize Quiberon Bay, France, enabling the construction of an artificial harbor to support Allied operations in Northern France in 1944.
The artificial harbor was not developed, as the US VIII Corps failed to capture German-held areas that threatened the port. By the end of August 1944, Allied forces had captured all of Brittany except for the critical areas, preventing the further development of the operation. Following the capture of Antwerp and its port facilities in early September 1944, Operation Chastity was officially cancelled on 7 September.
The non-completion and eventual cancellation of Operation Chastity exacerbated strains on the Allied logistical system, may have prevented an Allied victory over Germany in 1944, and has been described as "the critical error of World War II", although other historians believe that priority was rightly given to the pursuit of the routing German forces.
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