campaign, notable, interwar and Second World War
Operation Lüttich
Operation Lüttich was a campaign fought in 1944 at Mortain, in what is now France. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Allied victory. Recorded strength: about 200 tanks against 150 tanks and assault guns.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1944 (year precision) to 1944 | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | Mortain, France 48.649N, 0.940W | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | about 200 tanks | 150 tanks and assault guns |
| Casualties and losses | ~10,000 casualties; 2,000–3,000 killed | Unknown number of infantry; 120 tanks and assault guns destroyed or damaged |
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In the same war
- Before: Bombing of Hajdúböszörmény in the WWII 1944
- After: Skirmish near Baranów 14 August 1944
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1944
- Battle of Leyte Gulf Philippines
- Battle of the Philippine Sea Japan
- Battle of Peleliu Palau
- Operation Ichi-Go China
- Battle of Saipan United States
Combat data (CDB90)
| Attacker: GER ELMS 2ND SS PD AND 17TH SS PGD | Defender: US 120TH INF (-)(+), 30TH ID | |
| Strength | 8,500 | 4,600 |
| Casualties | 375 (4.4%) | 600 (13.0%) |
| Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10 | 4 | 7 |
| Outcome | defender won | |
| Duration | 2 days | |
| Front width | 3 km | 3 km |
| Attacker advanced | 4 km | |
From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 613), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.
Operation Lüttich is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 1,495 in present-day France.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q698220, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Lüttich, revision 1384929035, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.