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Hi, all:
I am new here and English is not my native language. What brought me here because I have some listening comprehension questions. Don't know if people here can help me out.
I am trying to figure out a few vague words from the video. Since this is my 1st posting, I am not allowed to attached the video link yet.
So I am trying to ask first if this kind of questions is allowed here. Below is the sample of my questions. I surrounded the vague or unsure parts with (?). I will deeply appreciate if people here can help me.
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5.
The Canadians advanced on Falaise began on the 7th of August, and became bogged down 4 days later.
(00:08)The Canadians reserves and the 1st Polish Armored Division were fighting their 1st battle and they proved unequal to the tasks (?==>)...(<==?) either capturing Falaise or driving through to Argentan to meet up with the Americans.
By the 11th August, when the Canadians came to a halt, they were only half way to Falaise after an advance of 9 miles.
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Most of the Allied commanders, except for the fiery Patton, were somewhat awed by the German military tactics which were admittedly superior.
This was particularly true when their skills were likely to be exercised in this tight corner as Falaise gap.
(2:00)The allies also went in dread in (?==>)fitting(?<== not sure) unacceptable casualty right on their own forces.
Add to that the lack of experience in conducting a large encirclement, and these interventions were going to limit the success the Allies were able to achieve at Falaise.
There was of course no questions that the Germans was going to hold the Falaise pocket.
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But he dismissed Von Kluge whom he suspected not only on a complacity in the July bomb plot but on the negotiating with the Allies behind his back.
(4:26)Von Kluge was replaced by Field Marshal Walter Model who found himself in charge not of an Army but a rabble (?==>)albeit(<==????) to get away from the killing fields of Normandy. Time for escape was not running very short.
On the 17th of August, the 2nd Canadian Corps and the US 5th Corps made advances that reduced the exit from the Falaise pocket to just a few thousand yards.
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The Canadians meanwhile fired at every group of Germans they could see.
The Germans were scattered running in ones and twos from the shelter of one wood to the next.
(6:27)Some were picked off quickly. Some fell to the ground but managed to run on. Some lay injured unable to continue. Some simply gave up (?==>)while stick white flags(<==?).
But by then the Ground was littered with corpses and (?==>)hulks(?<== not sure) of smoking ruined tanks and vehicles.
The gap between Argentan and Falaise was finally closed on the 21st of August when the Canadians and Poles linked up at Coudehard.
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However they did leave behind 15,000 prisoners and some 4,000 of their tanks and other vehicles were destroyed.
(9:48)This though was not an escape to safety.
The French resistances, (?==>)a...(<==?) for revenge after 4 years of brutal occupation, sought and (?==>)saved(<==?) every opportunity to kill, torture or mutilate or
I am new here and English is not my native language. What brought me here because I have some listening comprehension questions. Don't know if people here can help me out.
I am trying to figure out a few vague words from the video. Since this is my 1st posting, I am not allowed to attached the video link yet.
So I am trying to ask first if this kind of questions is allowed here. Below is the sample of my questions. I surrounded the vague or unsure parts with (?). I will deeply appreciate if people here can help me.
================================================================
5.
The Canadians advanced on Falaise began on the 7th of August, and became bogged down 4 days later.
(00:08)The Canadians reserves and the 1st Polish Armored Division were fighting their 1st battle and they proved unequal to the tasks (?==>)...(<==?) either capturing Falaise or driving through to Argentan to meet up with the Americans.
By the 11th August, when the Canadians came to a halt, they were only half way to Falaise after an advance of 9 miles.
.........
.........
.........
Most of the Allied commanders, except for the fiery Patton, were somewhat awed by the German military tactics which were admittedly superior.
This was particularly true when their skills were likely to be exercised in this tight corner as Falaise gap.
(2:00)The allies also went in dread in (?==>)fitting(?<== not sure) unacceptable casualty right on their own forces.
Add to that the lack of experience in conducting a large encirclement, and these interventions were going to limit the success the Allies were able to achieve at Falaise.
There was of course no questions that the Germans was going to hold the Falaise pocket.
.........
.........
.........
But he dismissed Von Kluge whom he suspected not only on a complacity in the July bomb plot but on the negotiating with the Allies behind his back.
(4:26)Von Kluge was replaced by Field Marshal Walter Model who found himself in charge not of an Army but a rabble (?==>)albeit(<==????) to get away from the killing fields of Normandy. Time for escape was not running very short.
On the 17th of August, the 2nd Canadian Corps and the US 5th Corps made advances that reduced the exit from the Falaise pocket to just a few thousand yards.
.........
.........
.........
The Canadians meanwhile fired at every group of Germans they could see.
The Germans were scattered running in ones and twos from the shelter of one wood to the next.
(6:27)Some were picked off quickly. Some fell to the ground but managed to run on. Some lay injured unable to continue. Some simply gave up (?==>)while stick white flags(<==?).
But by then the Ground was littered with corpses and (?==>)hulks(?<== not sure) of smoking ruined tanks and vehicles.
The gap between Argentan and Falaise was finally closed on the 21st of August when the Canadians and Poles linked up at Coudehard.
.........
.........
.........
However they did leave behind 15,000 prisoners and some 4,000 of their tanks and other vehicles were destroyed.
(9:48)This though was not an escape to safety.
The French resistances, (?==>)a...(<==?) for revenge after 4 years of brutal occupation, sought and (?==>)saved(<==?) every opportunity to kill, torture or mutilate or