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7 unusual facts about Bocage


Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Tiger Ace — Set in Villers-Bocage, the episode is a backstory of Kampfgruppe Lehr commander Major-General Maximillian Voss and Hauptmann Josef Schultz who is the main antagonist in the original.

County of London Yeomanry

On June 13, they advanced with a battalion of the 1st Rifle Brigade by road from Villers-Bocage and were ambushed by a detachment of Tiger tanks.

Longvillers

There are no shops, nor any commercial outlets in the hamlet, the nearest shops, food, bars or hotels are located either in Villers-Bocage or Aunay-sur-Odon.

Malcolm Lewis Pratt

He received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in reestablishing an advanced aid station just demolished by shell-fire in Lucy-le-Bocage 11 June 1918, and in continuing to dress and evacuate the wounded under direct and continuous shell-fire at Thiancourt 13 September.

On the Yankee Station

"Histoire Vache" - In Villers-Bocage in Normandy, Eric loses his virginity to Marguerite who works at the abattoir.

Panzerfaust

In the Battle of Normandy, only 6% of British tank losses were from Panzerfaust fire, despite the close-range combat in the Bocage landscape.

Villers-Bocage

Villers-Bocage, Calvados, in the Calvados département, and the site of the Battle of Villers-Bocage


24th Lancers

Shortly after landing, it was involved in the fighting around Putot-en-Bessin and Villers Bocage.

Albert Herbert

He was called up in 1943, became an infantryman and took part in the Normandy landings in 1944 where he witnessed his comrades being picked off by German snipers in the Normandy bocage.

Cahagnes

Mömbris, Germany since 1989 (Mömbris is actually twinned with the Pré-Bocage, a grouping of towns of which Cahagne is one).

Churchill Crocodile

British Crocodiles supported the U.S. Army in the Normandy bocage, at the Battle for Brest, and during Operation Clipper, the Anglo-American assault on Geilenkirchen.

I SS Panzer Corps

The corps played a major role in the halting of the British Epsom and Goodwood operations, and the 17th SS Panzergrenadier and Panzer Lehr Divisions bitterly contested the American advance in the bocage country near Saint-Lô.

Laurindo Rabelo

Famous for his lundu lyrics and satires, he won the epithet of "the Brazilian Bocage", and, because of his physical appearance, the nickname "Poeta-Lagartixa" ("Gecko-Poet").

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

In 1797 enemies of Bocage belonging to the New Arcadia delated him to Manique, who on the pretext afforded by some anti-religious verses, the Epistola a Marilia, and by his loose life, arrested him when he was about to flee the country and lodged him in the Limoeiro, where he spent his thirty-second birthday.

Petropedetes

Petropedetes newtoni (Bocage, 1895) – Barej et al. (2010) considers P. darwinii occurring in Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea) a synonym of P. johnstoni.


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