Guards Artillery

Following a night advance to Point 176, the self-propelled artillery regiment of the Guards Armoured Division formed its gun lines in the small fields west of Maisoncelles. At approximately 0845 hours, guns began to engage targets and the battery captains sent reconnaissance patrols out to the flanks and forward …

1944-08-03

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Following a night advance to Point 176, the self-propelled artillery regiment of the Guards Armoured Division formed its gun lines in the small fields west of Maisoncelles. At approximately 0845 hours, guns began to engage targets and the battery captains sent reconnaissance patrols out to the flanks and forward of the undefended position. These patrols ran into an attack by Panther tanks and a company of panzergrenadiers. Last to abandon the position was "Q" Battery, whose "C" Troop attempted to cover the Regiment's withdrawal. Panther tanks and infantry began to emerge from the gully in the "triangular wood" where many soft skinned vehicles had been lost trying to escape. Just in time, elements of 21st Anti Tank Regiment arrived. .

Maisoncelles, France

Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive in the Battle of Normandy, from 30 July until 7 August 1944, during the Second World War. The geographical objectives of the attack, undertaken by VIII Corps and XXX Corps of the British Second Army (Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey), were to secure the road junction of Vire and the high ground of Mont Pinçon. The attack was made at short notice to exploit the success of Operation Cobra by the First US Army after it broke out on the western flank of the Normandy beachhead and to exploit the withdrawal of the 2nd Panzer Division from the Caumont area, to take part in Unternehmen Lüttich (Operation Liège) a German counter-offensive against the Americans.

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