Chambois is a city in France, and was part of the Falaise pocket. Combatants Western Allies Nazi Germany Commanders General Bernard Montgomery Lieutenant General Omar Bradley Field Marshal Günther von Kluge Field Marshal Walter Model Strength N/A 150,000 Casualties Canadian 18,500 Polish 2,300 U.S and British N/A Over 10,000 killed 60,000 wounded 50,000...
Maczek decided to send one battle group to Chambois and then block the exits by seizing the high ground at Mount Ormel-Coudehard, a hill the Poles would come to call the Maczuga or mace after its appearance on the contour maps.
Unfortunately the commander of the regiment who was to lead the advance to Chambois did not communicate his intentions clearly to the guide supplied by the French resistance.
On the maps at corps and army headquarters the gap could now be marked closed, but on the ground exhausted Polish, Canadian and American soldiers had to cope with an enemy that still included thousands of men determined to break the ring and fight their way north.
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