Falaise Gap

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Title

Falaise Gap

Description

Five photographs that show the devastation of vehicles, animals and buildings caused by the air attacks on the German forces attempting to escape through the Falaise Gap. Captioned 'Falaise "Gap" '.
#1, Horse drawn transport surrounded by litter and discarded equipment with a dead horse.
#2, Destroyed motor transport in front of a burned out building.
#3, A Panther pushed off the road in Saint Lambert-sur-Dive, Normandy, a cottage in the background.
#4, An officer sitting in a discarded motor vehicle, a damaged building in the background.
#5, German armour on its side in front of a church, L'Église, Saint-Lambert, in the village of Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive, Normandy.

Date

1944-08

Temporal Coverage

Coverage

Language

Type

Format

Five b/w photographs on three album pages

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Contributor

Identifier

PStandivanAG17020045,PStandivanAG17020046, PStandivanAG17020047

Citation

“Falaise Gap,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 15, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/35934.