German strong point Osteck

At the end of June 1944, the battle for the capture of "Festung" Cherbourg was under way. On the east flank, the German strong point called "Osteck", under the command of Major Küppers, was facing the 4th US Infantry Division …

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At the end of June 1944, the battle for the capture of "Festung" Cherbourg was under way. On the east flank, the German strong point called "Osteck", under the command of Major Küppers, was facing the 4th US Infantry Division of General Barton. On the 27th of June, the US troops attacked with infantry and tanks. The US advance was soon stopped by the fierce Resistance of the German defenders and by the fire of the heavy coastal battery "Hamburg" which had pointed one of its gun inland. Finally, General Barton got the surrender of Osteck by showing to Major Küppers a detailed map with all the German positions of Osteck. Küppers was then convinced that to continue the Resistance was useless and gave his surrender.

Cherbourg, France

The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on 6 June 1944. Allied troops, mainly American, isolated and captured the fortified port, which was considered vital to the campaign in Western Europe, in a hard-fought, month-long campaign. When they drew up their plans for the invasion of France, the Allied staff considered that it would be necessary to secure a deep-water port to allow reinforcements to be brought directly from the United States. (Without such a port, equipment packed for transit would first have to be unloaded at a port in Great Britain, unpacked, waterproofed and then reloaded onto landing craft to be transferred to France). Cherbourg, at the end of the Cotentin Peninsula, was the largest port accessible from the landings. The Allied planners decided at first not to land directly on the Cotentin Peninsula, since this sector would be separated from the main Allied landings by the Douve River valley, which had been flooded by the Germans to deter airborne landings. On being appointed overall land commander for the invasion in January 1944, British Army General Bernard Montgomery reinstated the landing on the Cotentin peninsula, partly to widen the front and therefore prevent the invaders becoming sealed into a narrow lodgement, but also to enable a rapid capture of Cherbourg.

Wikipedia: Battle of Cherbourg

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