Hello John!
Good points you make there and points that I have noticed that are not mentioned very frequently by our neighbours to the South. It seems likely that Operation Cobra would not have been very successful without Operation Spring. The forces in Operation Cobra would not have been able to beak out if they faced the same opposition that the forces in Operation Spring did.
I am still confused about the whereabouts of I./SS Panzer Regiment 1 Leibstandarte, the Panther Abteilung of the Leibstandarte. I wonder why there is conflicting information about this particular unit. Why would The Leibstandarte Volume IV/1 by Lehmann and Tiemann and Jochen Peiper Commander Panzer Regiment Leibstandarte by Agte place them at the scene of the crime yet Reynolds, in Steel Inferno and Meyer in The History Of The 12th SS Panzer Division insist that it was a part of Kampfgruppe Wunsche at this time? Very confusing.
Cheers,
Jon Fitzgerald
Calgary,AB,Canada
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