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August 1944, RAF Typhoons of 247 Squadron, armed with rockets
and 20mm cannon launch a series of devastating attacks against
the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in the Falaise
Gap. The German units had been almost completely surrounded by
advancing allied ground forces, and contained within an area
bounded by the four towns of Trun, Argentan, Vimoutiers and Chambois
near Falaise. The Germans began their retreat by the only remaining
route, through the Falaise Gap, whereupon the allies began a
sustained air assault in an attempt to prevent their escape,
and with deadly results. On a single day the Typhoons would destroy
175 German tanks. |