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The official WWII Normandy Campaign began with the D-Day Allied invasion on 6 June 1944 and ended seven weeks later on 24 July as Allied forces prepared a breakout from the Normandy beachhead. The campaign was characterized by intense fighting over a slow-growing beachhead. In the US sector, much of the combat was in bocage country, small pastures fenced by dense hedgerows
The official WWII Normandy Campaign began with the D-Day Allied invasion on 6 June 1944 and ended seven weeks later on 24 July as Allied forces prepared a breakout from the Normandy beachhead. The campaign was characterized by intense fighting over a slow-growing beachhead. In the US sector, much of the combat was in bocage country, small pastures fenced by dense hedgerows
After the official Normandy Campaign ended, intense mostly-mobile combat continued at various locations in Normandy until around 21 August, by which time German forces were withdrawing from most of France and Belgium.
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- Normandy Cemetery, page header photo, excerpted from http://www.303rdbg.com/cem-normandy.html - C/O 303rd Bombardment Group website, www.303rdbg.com. The Normandy American Cemetery is on the bluff above Omaha Beach.