Midnight in St. Lô
The attack on the two bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Channel didn’t seem to alarm German commanders at either the corps or the army level. However, increased enemy aircraft activity throughout the evening put the entire staff of the 84th Army Corps on high alert at eleven o’clock that evening, and the corps commander was awa…
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