Saturday, May 21, 2011

1940 Chronology: 21 May

Western Front
British armored forces attack the German salient on the Arras heights, but after a favorable start they are forced back on to their start line.

A similar effort is made by two divisions of the French 1st Army in the direction of Cambrai, but with a similiar result.

[A salient is "an angle or part", as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line. ]

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