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Typhoons at Falaise
It is August 1944, barely two months since the Allies landed their first troops
on the beaches of Normandy. Already the German Panzer Divisions are in full
retreat, and it is critical to halt them before they can regroup. Caught in the
Gap at Falaise, the battle was to be decisive. Flying throughout a continuous
onslaught, rocket-firing Typhoons kept up their attacks on the trapped armoured
divisions from dawn to dusk. The effect was devastating: at the end of the ten
day battle the 100,000 strong German force was decimated. Typhoons of 198
Squadron RAF, deliver their deadly rocket and cannon fire, a tank column has
been brought to a standstill, their reign of terror now almost at its end. |
