Carpiquet

[John McGillivray]

Below is a link to a radio broadcast by CBC's Matthew Halton describing the start of the battle of Carpiquet which started on the 4th of July, 1944

http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/07/04/

Here is an aerial photo of Carpiquet



A map of the Carpiquet area showing the locations of units involved in the fighting. Note the locations of the units from 1st SS LAH, with III/1 near Franqueville and II/1 just behind the control buildings of the airport. Missing from this map in the location of I/1 which was in the western suburbs of Caen.

III/1 launched two counterattacks against the north side of the Carpiquet salient followed by three counterattacks by I/1 LAH towards the East end of the Canadian positions. Note that the German counterattacks were carried out in a piecemeal fashion with no coordination between the different battalions of 1SS LAH.



Here is a link to photos of the Carpiquet area from Library and Archives Canada

http://search-recherche.collectionsc...940s&PageNum=1