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By 1944, blitzkrieg as a German tactic was finished. The last actual appearance of blitzkrieg in the war was when [[George Patton | General George S. Patton's]] Third Army broke out of the Normandy Pocket in Operation Cobra. The Allied columns covered 600 miles in just under two weeks.
By 1944, blitzkrieg as a German tactic was finished. The last actual appearance of blitzkrieg in the war was when [[George Patton | General George S. Patton's]] Third Army broke out of the Normandy Pocket in Operation Cobra. The Allied columns covered 600 miles in just under two weeks.
== Blitzkrieg after the war ==
The first significant use of blitzkrieg tactics in the post-war era was in the 1967 [[Six Day War]] when Israel, after destroying the entire Egyptian air force in a little more than an hour, sent a three pronged tank attack south to seize the Sinai peninsula and north to occupy the [[Golan]] heights. The ground phase of the first Gulf War, lasting only four days, followed a blitzkrieg with US, British, and French tanks that poured deep into southern Iraq in what General [[Norman Schwarzkopf]] termed a "Hail Mary" pass before hooking right and cutting off the escaping Iraqi forces, which were then demolished in detail by tanks and aircraft. The Iraq War plan also relied on blitzkrieg, but execution was thrown off track when NATO "ally" Turkey refused to allow the 4th Infantry Division to launch from their territory bordering Iraq on the north.
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