The name of the town of St-Le has a powerful resonance for American Normandy veterans. Both the German defenders and the Allies were aware that the town was the strategic key to western Normandy. St-Le had already been subjected to a massive bombardment campaign before D-Day, as it formed the hub of the local road network. Major General Charles H. Gerhardt, commander of US 29th Infantry Division that landed at Omaha on 6 June, was ordered to capture the town by D plus 9 (15 June). The scene was set for a trial of strength between the opposing sides that would decide the fate of the Normandy campaign.
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Nigel de Lee studied History at Leeds University, War Studies at the University of London and International Relations at Cambridge. In the course of a thirty-year teaching career, he has taught at the Royal Military Acadamy Sandhurst, the US Military Academy at West Point and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He lives in East Yorkshire.
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