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Why the Man Behind Normandy’s Breakout Was Forgotten | Lightning Joe Collins

Why the Man Behind Normandy’s Breakout Was Forgotten | Lightning Joe Collins #WWIIHistory #OperationCobra #NormandyBreakout In late July 1944, the Normandy campaign reached a breaking point. For nearly two months, American forces had been trapped inside the deadly hedgerow maze, where every field became a separate battlefield and every advance cost blood. Then Operation Cobra shattered the German defensive system. The moment the line cracked, armored warfare returned to France — and the road to Paris suddenly opened. History remembers the thunder of Patton’s dash across liberated territory. But the breach itself was not Patton’s creation. It was engineered by Major General J. Lawton Collins — “Lightning Joe” — the corps commander whose decisive exploitation turned fragmentation into full collapse, triggering one of the most important operational breakthroughs of the entire Western Front. This documentary explores how Collins broke the German Seventh Army in Normandy… and why the man responsible for that turning point was largely erased from popular memory. Sources & References: Martin Blumenson — Breakout and Pursuit (United States Army in World War II: European Theater of Operations, Center of Military History, 1961) Omar N. Bradley — A Soldier’s Story (Henry Holt, 1951) J. Lawton Collins Papers — Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kansas National WWII Museum — “Louisiana Spotlight: Lightning Joe Collins” U.S. Army Center of Military History — Operation Cobra Archives Image Credits: 2nd Armored Division tank columns, Normandy (July 1944) — PhotosNormandie, CC BY-SA 2.0 Additional archival imagery courtesy U.S. National Archives and Library of Congress Collections If you’re fascinated by WWII fighter aces, the evolution of air combat, Cold War jet battles, and real military history, this episode delivers a rare and unforgettable story from the shadowed years immediately after World War II. 👉 Subscribe to Shadow War Files for more dark, documented war stories, from WWII to the early Cold War. 👉 Like, comment, and share to honor the courage of history’s bravest.