9 Infantry Division (USA) Falaise Pocket attack into it from the south

General George S.Patton’s Third Army attack encircled numerous German forces when it sped east and then hooked north towards Argentan and Falaise.
The 9th Infantry Division had been attacking into the northern perimeter of this developing “Falaise Pocket”, but now received orders to move around the pocket’s perimeter and attack into it from the south.
By doing so it reinforced the southern jaw of the closing trap and guaranteed that there would be no gaps along it.
Allied forces squeezed the entrapped Germans into an ever smaller area.
The 9th Infantry Division’s attack progressed quickly, capturing many prisoners and advancing to the Orne River before being pinched out by advancing British forces as the pocket disappeared.
The Falaise Pocket proved yet another disaster for the Germans, who lost 50,000 prisoners in addition to the tens of thousands already killed or wounded in the fighting.
Perhaps equally damaging, the Germans who did escape lost most of their equipment in the pocket or in the pursuit.