Battlefield The Battle for Caen (Season 5, Episode 6)
TV Episode | Documentary, History, War

Battlefield

The Battle for Caen (Season 5, Episode 6)

TV Episode | Documentary, History, War

The French city of Caen was identified by the Allies as an early goal for troops coming ashore during the D-Day invasion. Rather than quickly falling, the struggle for Caen became a bloody, grinding affair that lasted for seven weeks due ...See moreThe French city of Caen was identified by the Allies as an early goal for troops coming ashore during the D-Day invasion. Rather than quickly falling, the struggle for Caen became a bloody, grinding affair that lasted for seven weeks due to intense German resistance. While a costly struggle, the fighting around Caen pinned down German troops which facilitated Operation Cobra in late July. This saw the Allies breakout of the beachhead and move to encircle German forces in Normandy. See less

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Name	Known for
Jonathan Booth Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge (2001)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Self - Supreme Allied Commander (archive footage) Self - Supreme Allied Commander (archive footage) See fewer	Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945)
Bernard L. Montgomery Self - British Field Marshall (archive footage) Self - British Field Marshall (archive footage) See fewer	Victory at Sea (1952)
Erwin Rommel Self - German Field Marshall (archive footage) Self - German Field Marshall (archive footage) See fewer	Deutsche Soldaten in Afrika (1942)