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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 Armoured Division Army's artillery ashore assault attack August Battalion battle battlefield beach began bombers bombing Bradley Brigade British Caen campaign Canadian casualties Cherbourg Colonel commander counter-attack crews D-Day DD tanks defences Divisional east Eisenhower enemy Engineers Falaise fighting fire flank formations forward France front German army GOODWOOD Green Howards ground guns headquarters Hitler infantry Infantry Div invasion July June killed landing craft Lieutenant London Luftwaffe machine-gun Major-General Montgomery morning mortar move night Normandy officers Omaha operations OVERLORD Panzer Division Panzer Lehr Panzergrenadiers paratroopers platoon positions Pz Div reached Regiments R.A. rifle road Rommel Royal Second Army Sergeant SHAEF shell Sherman soldiers St Lô staff tactical tanks troops turret U.S. Army units vehicles VII Corps Villers-Bocage weapons Wehrmacht wounded wrote XXX Corps yards