Operation Lüttich

Operation Lüttich was the codename of the Nazi German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which occurred in the vicinity of the U.S. positions near Mortain, in northwestern France. Lüttich is the German name for the city of Liège, Belgium. In British and in American histories of the Second World War, the German Operation Lüttich is known as the Mortain counter-attack, which Hitler ordered to regain territory gained by the First United States Army during Operation Cobra by reaching the coast of the Avranches region, which is at the base of the Cotentin peninsula, in order to isolate the units of the Third United States Army that had advanced into Brittany.

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