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Falaise pocket
Operation Totalize
Operation Market Garden
Battle of the Bulge
Operation Overlord
Crossing of the Rhine - Ruhrpocket
Allied invasion of Sicily, Anzio, Avalange, Gustav Line, Monte Casino etc.
~ and to some extend there are the operations of 1940 during the German invasion in France where the British and French troops saw fighting. Not every battle there was a clear victory for the Germans and in some indidivual cases the allies proved a hard defence though as whole they could not gain the tactical iniative.
Granted the west didnt saw some of the battles like in the east with operations that saw men advancing in the million but Kursk was also not something you had every day even though champaigns in the east involved a lot of contingents but many battles have been as well siedges or encirclements. But here the War started in 41 and had much room for the Germans to operate. The first major operations with the US primarily was in Africa around November 42 (Operation Torch). The battles in france have seen quite a lot of heavy fights particulary around Caen (Operation Totalize) where the British forces at some point faced aprox 70% of the in France deployed German armored forces. And those have been quite a lot. One could also name the operations in the Netherlands (Market Garden) which was the bigest paratrooper operation since today even biger to the D-Day operation or the Ardenes (Wacht am Rhein - Battle of the Buldge) to name a few other situations with heavy fighting. The Falaise Pocket eventualy was a pocket which traped aprox 100 000 German soldiers inside exposing them to heavy artillery fire since the Allies didnt managed to close it completely in time so the Wehrmacht managed to almost remove all their men under constant shelling and bombing. But they had to leave any heavy equipment back though. I think only a handfull of vehicles made it out from the thousands of armor which was left behind.
It is plain wrong and historicaly very questionable to simply say the east would have been the only location wich has seen heavy fighting.
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