Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Operation Bluecoat was an attack by the British Second Army at the Battle of Normandy during World War II, from 30 July 1944 to 7 August 1944. The geographical objectives of the attack were to secure the key road junction of Vire and the high ground of Mont Pinçon. Strategically, the attack was made to support the American exploitation of their breakout on the western flank of the Normandy beachhead. On 25 July, the American army broke out of the beachhead, in Operation Cobra. A few days earlier, the British and Canadian forces had launched Operation Goodwood south of Caen on the eastern flank of the Allied beachhead. This had induced the Germans to keep the bulk of their forces, particularly their armoured units, in this sector.