Goodwood is an area in eastern Leicester. It is roughly bounded by Spencfield Lane to the east and Whitehall Road to the south (seperating it from Evington), and borders Crown Hills to the west. To the north, on the other side of the A47, is Thurnby Lodge. Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city in the English East Midlands, on the River Soar. ... Evington is a village in Leicester, England. ... The A47 is a trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Great Yarmouth (although most of the section between Birmingham and Nuneaton has been reclassified as the B4114). ...
Goodwood gained some terrain as the bridgehead over the Orne was expanded; in a few areas the depth of penetration was 12,000 yards, but much of the gain was lateral, southward across the British front rather than eastwards into the depth of the German position; however, Caen was finally secured.
Goodwood was launched at a time of high frustration in the higher command of the Allies and this contributed to the controversy surrounding the operation.
Therefore, in the planning stage of Goodwood, he seemed to promise that the attack would be the breakthrough the Allies were looking for, so that when the British VIII Corps failed to achieve a penetration, by some accounts Eisenhower felt he had been misled.
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