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chance smile to General Patton
On 31 July 1944, Avranches is taken and the German western front is
on the verge of dismantling. The same day, with the arrival on the
battlefield of General Patton’s 3rd Army, the American divisions
push southward. A spearhead unit is assigned the mission to capture
the Pontaubault bridge. A German kampfgruppe launch a counter-attack,
but it is not strong enough facing to the powerful 3rd Army. On 31
July, in the evening, Patton receives a phone call announcing him
the capture of Pontaubault bridge; at once he orders a staff meeting,
and all the night the American armoured divisions cross the bridge
and fan out in Brittany.
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PONTAUBAULT
(Manche - 5 km south of Avranches)
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