he's known to this day as the major of saint lux, thomas howie. so with this key objective finally in his hands bradley hopes to kind of pivot out of saint lux and beyond. i mentioned montgomery's goodwood offensive. originally he hoped to coordinate that with a major offensive by bradley pushing southwest out of saint lux and both want to use the air force to carpet bomb the front lines ahead of them. well because of the weather patterns in normandy, the weather was just simply too bad in the american sector to launch this offensive, plus the fighting around saint lux had been so cost costly, the americans aren't going to be in a position to push until july 24th, and that's several days after the goodwood offensive. this is coming piecemeal and alloys the germans to react to either one of them. july 24th, 1944, bradley will launch what's called operation cobra. he has coordinated with the 8th air force back in england to basically bomb in front of his lines, to saturate the german lines, primary the panzer lair divisions, going to be bombed heavi

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he's known to this day as the major of saint lux, thomas howie. so with this key objective finally in his hands bradley hopes to kind of pivot out of saint lux and beyond. i mentioned montgomery's goodwood offensive. originally he hoped to coordinate that with a major offensive with bradley pushing southwest out of saint lux and both want to use the air force to carpet bomb the front lines ahead of them. well because of the weather patterns in normandy, the weather was just simply too bad in the american sector to launch this fighting. the americans aren't going to be in a position to push until july 249 and that's several days after the goodwood offensive. this is coming piece meal and allow the germans to react. july 24th, 1944, bradley will launch what's called operation cobra. he's coordinated with the 8th air force back in england to basically bomb in front of his lines to saturate the gear ran lines primarily the panzer lair division. to create a path of destruction that the germans will not be able to stop approaching combined arms advance.

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