Recently I added a bit about the Falaise pocket on Sappers post.

I witnessed the slaughter and the sheer brutality of that cursed place. So many bodies that in places, to cross the road you had to walk on them, made all the worse by the horses that the enemy used, that had run amok under the drenching fire. many of them charged up and down in blind panic and abject fear, often on broken legs. All ended up dead with their feet in the air and bloated.

Much of what I saw was beyond description. The final chapter of Monty's plan coming to fruition in this place of hell. Everything that had gone before, the wearing down of the SS Panzers. The infantry battles. The battle of Normandy now ended in utter and complete Victory in this climax of horror. All that had gone before now paid great dividends... in this murderous place named the Falaise pocket.

Even now it makes me shudder, 60 years on, for in that pocket men were killed, burned and their dead bodies torn apart by the ferocity of the barrages.

FALAISE BLOODY FALAISE.
Sapper