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map again. The fourth German drive again attempted to exploit the gap
beetween the British and the French. As it would turn out, it also ended
up pitting the Germans against the newly arrived American Army. The
offensive was sucessful to a degree in that it gained ground, but the
ground gained was much smaller than prior German drives.
Operation Blucher-Yorck was followed by a new German offensive, Operation Gneisenau which
was designed to exploit the successes of the earlier offensive
operations. The French, however, anticipated the June 9 assault and
launched a massive counterattack two days into it, on June 11. While
the Germans had advanced nine miles in that two days, the French
counterattack caused them to call off further operations on June 12.
This resulted in a month long German pause while they postponed a large
operation that was supposed to have exploited the May 27 through June 5
advances.
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