Transcription: Late in the afternoon a surprised Rommel reached France. He was not completely convinced that this was the Allies main offensive, but undertook to drive the enemy back to the sea by nightfall. He had only 80,000 men at the 7th Army to accomplish this, against Allied forces of 155,000. Still convinced that the Allies would launch an attack near Pas-de-Calais, Hitler refused to deploy the 15th Army from that area to the Normandy beaches. By nightfall, fighting on the beaches had reached a lull with the Allies pausing to rest. Although the Allies had not reached any of their final objectives for ...
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