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Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II.
- 25-31 July 1944
- Allied victory [1] [2]
Learn how the US Army used heavy bombers to break out of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy during Operation Cobra, a high-risk, high-reward operation in July 1944. Find out the details of the plan, the execution, and the outcome of this daring air assault.
Jul 31, 2019 · Learn about the Normandy breakout in July 1944, when the Allies smashed the German line and liberated France. See the map of the Operation Cobra battlefields and read the analysis of the bocage fighting.
Jun 8, 2024 · Operation Cobra, scheduled for July 25, opened with a devastating air attack (some of which fell on the waiting GIs). Through the gap thus opened, the U.S. First Army sped toward Avranches, taken on July 30. At this point George S. Patton’s newly formed Third Army joined in the advance.
Nov 2, 2018 · Operation Cobra was conducted from July 25 to 31, 1944, during World War II (1939-1945). After the Allied landings in Normandy, commanders began to formulate a plan to push out from the beachhead. Initial efforts were hampered by the need to take the city of Caen in the east and the dense hedgerow country in the west.
Operation Cobra: With Nyra Banerjee, Hiten Patel, Gautam Gulati, Pawan Chopra. RAW and MI6 agents join their forces to bring down a terrorist plot against UK, but will they trust eachother?
Mar 3, 2017 · On July 25, Operation Cobra began. 3,000 American bombers flew over the German lines near St-Lô. Between them, they dropped 4,000 tons of napalm, high-explosives and fragmentation bombs. A five-mile stretch of German lines was devastated.
