At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Germans in Normandy had largely wiped out three Allied paratrooper divisions, and only a few Allied paratroopers fled through the gap to the beach. The Germans, after clearing the Allied paratroopers, did not attack, but chose to take the initiative to retreat 30 kilometers and set up a defensive line on the Caen line.

When Allied commander-in-chief Dwight Dwight D. Eisenhower learned that the Germans had secretly deployed four panzer divisions in Normandy, he was almost not scared to death, and Eisenhower's first reaction was that Normandy was a trap dug by the Germans, and if it were not for night, Eisenhower ordered the landed Allied forces to immediately retreat back to Britain.

What made Eisenhower feel very pleased was that the three Allied paratrooper divisions had dragged the four German armored divisions all night, and by the time the German armored divisions had eliminated the Allied paratrooper divisions, it was already ten minutes of dawn, and as long as the day came, it would be the world of the Allied air force, and Eisenhower swore in his heart that he must blow all the four German armored divisions into scum with aerial bombs.

Throughout the night, Eisenhower, the commander of the Allied Airborne Forces, was tormented, and the intercom was full of cries for help from his elite paratrooper units, while the Allied forces, with millions of troops, more than 10,000 planes, and countless warships, were powerless, and it is conceivable how much Eisenhower hated these four German armored divisions.

"This damn intelligence officer should have been shot, the Germans actually hid four armored divisions in Normandy, and this was completely to send all the tens of thousands of Allied soldiers who landed to hell."

Eisenhower was furious in the command room, and only after the telegraph officer reported that the Germans had retreated 30 kilometers did Eisenhower breathe a sigh of relief.

At first, Eisenhower also felt that this was a trap for the German army. But then after careful analysis, these German armored divisions did not have any air cover, and they had to choose to retreat and hide during the day, otherwise the Allied air force would turn them all into piles of burning bonfires.

Eisenhower was still not at ease, so he asked the staff officers to discuss it immediately, and at the same time gathered various intelligence and analysis, and the German army did not masse a large number of troops to Normandy. Only then did Eisenhower determine that his opponent, "Desert Tiger" Limer, did not dig a trap for him in Normandy.

Early the next morning, Eisenhower ordered thousands of planes to launch air strikes on the German defensive positions, and countless aerial bombs were overwhelming. The temporary defensive line built by the Germans was suddenly full of holes. There were also a lot of casualties, and the German army, which did not have air supremacy, could only be bombed even if it could fight. Although there was no less artillery fire from German aviation. But two or three hundred shells can beat a plane. This loss was almost negligible for the Allies.

All right! The hours of the day belonged to the Allies, at least the skies. Li Mo's method of dealing with the Allies was also simple. The 39 divisions of Army Group B, 29 of which took advantage of the cover of nightfall, began to retreat in great strides. The 10 divisions and 3 regiments in Normandy resisted step by step, and their retreat target was the mountains of northern Italy.

There were not many German troops in France, but there was one thing that was very special, and that was all kinds of mines. Reaching eight million lessons, in addition to the four million used on the coast, on the way to retreat, Germany can calmly bury four million, and the Allies will slowly go to demining!

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Caen is a small town located in the rear of Normandy, thirty-five kilometers from Normandy, now guarded by the 12SS Panzer Division, the full name of Hitler Youth Panzer Division, the whole division is mostly 14-16 years old children, in order to ensure nutrition, these soldiers are supplied with one liter of milk a day, the Allies gave this division the nickname "Doll Division", as a result, this Doll Division is a slap in the face for the Allies.

The task of the 12th SS Panzer Division was to hold back the Allies and to buy enough time for the defenders retreating from Normandy to set up a defensive line fifty kilometers east of Caen.

On June 6, 1941, the Allies had a hard day at the landing ground on Normandy Beach. Subsequently, the British 2nd Army, consisting of British and Canadian units, unprepared, met the 12th Panzer Division of the German SS (Waffen-SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth") at Caen.

The Allied plans to break through the southern line of defense and occupy the ancient French city of Caen on the first day fell through, and they encountered an elite division. This unit was the 12th SS Panzer Division, which had been trained as a counter-force. In the weeks leading up to the assault on Normandy, the Allies had derided the 12th Panzer Division as a "doll division," but for the Allied soldiers fighting against the 12th SS Panzer Division, they were faced with a fanatical force of well-trained teenage boys.

British and Canadian forces had to engage the 12th Panzer Division in a six-week war of attrition. The 12th Panzer Division not only prevented the Allies from capturing Caen, but also prevented the Allies from reaching Falaise on time, thus delaying the formation of the Falaise Encirclement and avoiding the total annihilation of both German armies.

As the threat of Allied landings in northern France grew, the 12th SS Panzer Division was deployed to the Normandy area on 1 April 1941. The division was transported by train from Belgium to its destination, located between the lower Seine and the lower Orne. The division arrived with high morale and good equipment.

Subsequently, the division commander began to study the terrain of the defense zone and began to prepare for defense. At that time, the 716th and 352nd Infantry Divisions were deployed on the coastal line from the mouth of the Seine to Bayes, which were responsible for the first-line defense. These two divisions had the common characteristics of infantry divisions on the Western Front - low morale and discontent.

The 21st Panzer Division, which was responsible for supporting these two divisions, was clearly not taken seriously by the battle-hardened forces in Africa, and was only equipped with Type IV tanks, and even a lot of captured "Soma S.35 tanks" were used to refill the numbers.

The commanders of the 12th SS Panzer Division were 34-year-old Captain of the Frieze-Witte Brigade (equivalent to Major General of the Wehrmacht) and 33-year-old Captain of the Kurt Meyer (i.e. "Panzer Meyer") Flag Captain (equivalent to the Colonel of the Wehrmacht).

They were under the command of General Marcos of the 46th Army. After the start of the landing, he could only rely on the forces deployed on the second line, especially the 12th SS Panzer Division in the Normandy area.

In order for the 12th SS Panzer Division to expand and defend and gather more information, Witt and Meyer drove to the shores of the English Channel. Here they found that the 716th Infantry Division had a very loose arrangement of defenses on the first line of the coast, and there was a lack of fire cover between the defensive points, and behind the coastal artillery bunkers and heavy machine-gun positions, there were very few anti-tank weapons.

Most of the bunkers are still under construction, and even those that are finished are not enough to withstand heavy bombers and large-caliber naval guns. Witte was confident that in the face of these weak fortifications, the Allied landing here would be successful. Subsequently, under the cover of a joint naval and air attack, the Allies would soon launch an offensive inland. After a detailed study of the condition of roads and bridges in the coastal zone, Witte came to this conclusion:

…… (To be continued......)