Normandy Breakout, Cressy & Agincourt

We followed the US south thropugh the bockage & had dinner with my cousin who live in St Pois where we stayed the night.   Then to the hill at Montain where the US stopped Hitler's dumb counterattack.

US fox hole on the ridge.

South of the town of Falaise there is an excelent viewing point with detailed maps & descriptions of the closing of the gap.

On the ridge to the east where the Canadians & Pole blocked the Falaise gap there is a memorial & museum with a grand view of the gap.

Not far east of the gap at Vimotiers is a Tiger beside the road where it was abandoned out of diesel.

After staying overnight at Lisieu, we went north to Cressy.  Traditionally the battle site is close to the village of Cressy, but there is an alternative site about 5km away.  We visited both & really both fit the scanty records of the battle.  But finding the new alternative which is not marked & doesn't have a viewing platform was much more interesting.

We liked the recent alternative better, though the Cressy tourist businesses would rather it went away.

There is less contovesy about the site of Argincourt, but in fact there are plenty of other pieces of ground in the area that would fit the bill.
So much to learn from these battlefields except to get a feel for the terrain in general, the scale of the action & to tick off the boxes in our bucket lists.

On to Albert where we are staying two nights to allow a good look at the WWII battlefields east of Amiens.