Bombardment along a five-mile stretch of the German line enabled the Allies to break through on 25 July. While some armored forces drove southward into Brittany, others fanned out to the east and, overcoming a desperate counterattack, executed a pincers movement that trapped many Germans in a pocket at Falaise. The enemy fell back on the Siegfried Line, and by mid-September 1944 nearly all of France had been liberated. During these operations in France, while light and medium bombers and fighter-bomber aircraft of Ninth Air Force had been engaged in close support and interdictory operations, Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces had continued their strategic bombing.

Divisions that Fought in the Northern France Campaign

1st Infantry division 2nd Infantry division 4th Infantry division 5th Infantry division 8th Infantry division 9th Infantry division 26th Infantry division 28th Infantry division 29th Infantry division 30th Infantry division 35th Infantry division 44th Infantry division 66th Infantry division 79th Infantry division 80th Infantry division 83rd Infantry division 90th Infantry division 94th Infantry division 95th Infantry division 104th Infantry division 2nd Armored division 3rd Armored division 4th Armored division 5th Armored division 6th Armored division 7th Armored division

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