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"— which the Germans had been fighting desperately to keep open to allow their trapped forces to escape —"
how can you defend this, it is not descriptive, it contains pleonasm in referring to the escape of trapped forces, how could they escape if they weren't trapped?
"By 22 August, the Falaise Pocket was finally sealed, ending the Battle of Normandy according to some authorities, with a crushing Allied victory."
This is also a compromise, finally sealed is another sloppy non-NPOV term, which should be ...had been sealed. It seems that lots of US RS treat this as the end of the Battle of Normandy and lots of British RS see the armies closing up to the Seine as the end of the battle. I suggest that a featured article should advert to this. Keith-264 (talk) 14:48, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
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This article has featured status, shouldn't the figures in the boxes get referenced by people with access to the proper books? The casualties given in the box are 1800 Napier gives 23000 casualties. How can such discrepancy make it into a featured article?
Furthermore, it appears that numbers are selectively chosen from different sources to find the most outlandish numbers in either direction. How does the number of 300 German tanks as losses make it into the article, this apparently exceeds the number of involved vehicles? And appears to be the general number of captured vehicles in the later pocket. Hastings at no points those numbers are from Cobra. Here is what he said:
"It was only on the 21st August that the Falaise Gap could be properly accounted closed, as tanks of the Canadian 3rd and 4th Divisions secured St Lambert and the northern passage to Chambois. 344 tanks and self propelled guns ... were counted abandoned or destroyed in the Northern sector of the pocket alone.
Operation Cobra ended on the 31st July. Why is this citation in the article about Cobra? Again, should this happen in a FA status article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justsomequickedits (talk • contribs) 14:24, 3 September 2018 (UTC)