Victory in France: Operation Cobra to the Liberation of Paris @WW2TV

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Victory in France: Operation Cobra to the Liberation of Paris
With Mark Calhoun
Part of Liberation of Paris week
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Also part of our 80th Anniversary Series
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In today's show we look at the US Army from Operation Cobra over the next month up to the liberation of the French capital city.

Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Mark T. Calhoun served as a US Army aviator and war planner for twenty years. After retirement, he earned his PhD in History from the University of Kansas, and began working as an associate professor of history at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies. He is now a Historian at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans
nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/kasserine-pass-german-offensive-american-victory.

Mark's previous shows:
General Lesley McNair - Unsung Architect of the US Army and his death in Operation Cobra
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German Offensives in Tunisia and the Battle of Kasserine Pass
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General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U. S. Army by Mark Calhoun
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