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12th SS Panzer 21st Army Group 21st Panzer 6th Airborne 7th Armoured 88 mm gun air forces aircraft American anti-tank Argentan Armd Div Armoured Division Army's artillery ashore assault attack August Battalion battle battlefield beach began bombers bombing Bradley Brigade British Caen campaign Canadian casualties Cherbourg commander Cotentin counter-attack crews D-Day defences Divisional east Eisenhower enemy Engineers Falaise fighting fire flank formations forward France front German army GOODWOOD ground guns headquarters Hitler ibid infantry Infantry Div interview invasion July June killed landing craft Lieutenant Luftwaffe machine-gun Major-General Montgomery morning mortar move night Normandy officers Omaha operations OVERLORD Panzer Group West Panzer Lehr Panzergrenadiers platoon positions Quesada Regiment R.A.C. rifle road Rommel Royal Second Army Sergeant SHAEF shell Sherman soldiers SS Pz Div St Lô staff tactical tanks troops U.S. Army units vehicles VII Corps Villers-Bocage weapons Wehrmacht wounded wrote XXX Corps yards