In Operation Totalize, Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds's II Canadian Corps launched an attack from its positions along the Bourgue bus Ridge, south of Caen, striking south-southeast astride the main Caen-Ealaise road toward the high ground that dominated the town of Ealaise and the key west-east lateral road that ran through this town. Using sophisticated operational art, the initial break-in achieved rapid success; indeed, more tactical...
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