After the failure of the d-day plan to take Caen and the right hook through Villers Bocage didn't work out, Operation Epsom was the third plan to take Caen.
Starting at Norrey en Bessin the VIII th corps was to take Hill 112 then form a bridgehead over the River Orne.
They were coming up against the12th Hitler youth SS panzers then the IInd SS Pz Corps. The Scots held off a counter attack from the 9th and 10th SS pz divisions.
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In these videos we will visit D-day sites as if I was guiding you. We will actualy visit in a way not possible if you were with me. video allows teletranporting a few miles in a few seconds.
This first video sets the scene for D-day. Why it was on the 6th June 1944 and why was it on the normandy beaches between Caen and the Cherbourg penisnsula.
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Visited sites - as of date of upload
Why D-Day
Pegasus bridge
Omaha beach 1
Omaha beach 2
Sword beach
American airborne 1
American airborne 2
Juno beach
Pointe du Hoc
Utah beach
Gold beach
British airborne
Waverly Wray
Band of Brothers
La Fierre
101st Airborne
Port en Bessin
Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil
The Mahlmann line
Operation Epsom
Projected visits -
Merville gun battery
The Dives bridges
General Falley
Longues gun battery
Arromanches and the Mulberries
Port en bessin
82nd airborne
Donald Burgett
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
Photo credits
- US national archives
- Bundes archives
- Archives ecpad
Tags
Operation Epsom, Caen, General Montgomery, General O'Connor, VIIIth Corps, Argyles regiment,
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Plan
07:15 - St Manvieu Norrey
08:53 - Cheux
13:22 - Tourville
16:47 - Gavrus
18:47 - Hill 112
21:44 - SS Pz counter attack
