The Mahlmann Line. The US breakout from the Cherbourg peninsula during the battle of normandy.

Описание: The Mahlmann line was the idea of General Mahlmann. He used the natural features between Brettevile sur Ay to the floods of Gorges passing across several hills.
The line was finally smashed by the 90th division taking Mont Castre after over a eek of bloody combat.
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Bibliography

Battle of normandy Offical history, Martin Blumenson
90th division journal
The Americans at Normandy, John McManus

Photo credits
US national archives
Bundesarchiv

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Visited sites - as of date of upload
Why D-Day
Pegasus bridge
Omaha beach
Sword beach
Pointe du Hoc
American airborne
Utah beach
Juno beach
Gold beach
British airborne
Saint Marie du Mont
Waverly Wray
82nd airborne
101st airborne
Mahlman line
Port en Bessin
La Fiere

Projected visits -


Band of Brothers
Merville gun battery
General Falley
Longues gun battery
Arromanches and the Mulberries
Donald Burgett
Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil
Totalise
Worthington Force
Falaise pocket
Taking St Lo
Operation Cobra
Graignes massacre
Joe Beryle
Ed Shames
Angoville au plain
Battle of Bloody gulch
Taking Cherbourg
Maisy gun battery.
Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance
Hillman
Douvre radar station