Episode 22 - Falaise – The Corridor of Death
The Canadian army played the pivotal role in closing the Falaise Gap and ensuring Allied victory in the Normandy Campaign.
The Canadian army played the pivotal role in closing the Falaise Gap and ensuring Allied victory in the Normandy Campaign in August 1944. The battle destroyed the bulk of the German forces in Normandy, but controversy over why it took so long to close the Gap – and why so many Germans escaped to fight another day – has raged ever since.
The closing of the Gap was a great victory, but it was not as decisive as the Allies desired, as the Scheldt Campaign would demonstrate.
