Bradley had two divisions on the lip of the Falaise Gap and a chance to trap the entire German Seventh Army — then he stopped. This is the full, records-based account of the halt order at Argentan, the six days the gap stayed open, and the "Corridor of Death" that followed. Tens of thousands of German soldiers walked out before the trap fully closed.
This documentary covers Lieutenant General Omar Bradley's XV Corps under Wade Haislip, the drive from Operation Cobra through Avranches and Mortain, Field Marshal Günther von Kluge and Field Marshal Walter Model commanding the trapped German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army, General Bernard Montgomery's converging Canadian and Polish forces under Harry Crerar and Stanisław Maczek, the fighting at Verrières Ridge, Operations Totalize and Tractable, the Polish stand at Hill 262 (the Maczuga), and the pocket's closure near Chambois on August 21, 1944.

Every figure in this video is drawn from official after-action reports, Allied and German loss tables, and published unit records, cross-checked against multiple historical sources rather than a single account.

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