Operation Luttich: Falaise Gap

Operation Luttich 1944. From Joni Nuutinen: by a wargamer for the wargamers since 2011. Last updated March 2026

Do you have the skills and nerves to push exhausted Wehrmacht forces to the key city of Avranches through the fierce Allied resistance and numbing bombardment to cut off US armies breaking out from Normandy while German flanks are crumbling all around you?

Situation on August 7, 1944: British and Canadian troops had tied down elite German formations near Caen while the entire US Third Army had broken through from Normandy to Brittany via the city of Avranches.

However, German HQ realized that by advancing mere 30 km (20 miles) from Mortain to Avranches, they could cut off the First and Third US Army. Highly Tempting! Yet not realistic considering the massive Allied superiority both in supply and air power. But a go order was given. Into the fire.

This was a lot to ask from weary German units, but this was the absolutely last chance to contain the Allied landings in the Normandy area, maybe even pushing the Allies back into the ocean, and ultimately change the course of the war.

Surely throwing eight battle-hardened Panzer divisions against a small sector of the front line could push it forward a short distance of 30 km? In addition, the Germans committed all their Luftwaffe reserves to this undertaking, named Operation Lüttich.

The Allies realized that if they could contain this last German attempt to take the initiative in Normandy and swing around the American forces that had broken through, they might be able to encircle the 7th German Army and the Fifth Panzer Army in the Falaise area.

The only thing was sure: At the end of this maneuvering, either several German or American armies would be cut off, and that side would suffer losses measured in hundreds of thousands of men—a scale so far unprecedented on the Western Front of WWII.


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