Operation Goodwood -- 18 July 1944

This scenario covers the advance of the British forces from the area of le Mesnil-Frèmentel and Cagny to the area of Bourguèbus and Hubert-Folie. According to Keegan:

The landscape in between [Caen and Vimont] is an almost uninterrupted plain - it was that which recommended it to Montgomery as a stamping-ground for his armour - curiously un-Norman in its lack of hedges and streams. Few features rise to break its long horizons, which appear to stretch inland as far as a tank could drive in a day. But the appearance is deceptive. The plain rolls southward in a succession of shallow swells, and a point of vantage, like that provided by the embankment of the Caen-Vimont railway, reveals a chequerboard of small villages- Cuverville, Dèmouville, le Mesnil-Frèmentel, Cagny, le Poirier, Hubert-Folie- all no more than a mile apart, each sunk in thick orchards and centred on a stoutly built manorial farm. An attack down the corridor was not therefore to be a stretch of easy motoring but a complex navigation between strongpoints, overlooked at a distance by commanding heights, natural or man made, still in enemy hands.

Another good map can be found on the "onWar" site: http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/normandy/goodwood44.htm

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