VII Corps, the Germans were soon halted, and the Allies inflicted severe losses on the attacking troops, eventually destroying most of the German tanks involved in the attack. Despite initial success against the defending U.S. The Germans' main force was the XLVII Panzer Corps, with two Heer and one-and-a-half Waffen-SS Panzer Divisions. In British and American histories of the Second World War, the German Operation Lüttich is known as the Mortain counter-attack, which Hitler ordered to regain territory gained by the First United States Army during Operation Cobra by reaching the coast of the Avranches region, which is at the base of the Cotentin peninsula, in order to isolate the units of the Third United States Army that had advanced into Brittany. Lüttich is the German name for the city of Liège, Belgium. positions near Mortain, in northwestern France.

This experience was my first contact with field epidemiology, a highly hazardous virus, and BSL-4 containment work, three features that have characterized my career since.Operation Lüttich (7–13 August 1944) was the codename of the Nazi German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which occurred near U.S. The unusual features of the outbreak were mostly explained over time. I cared for the last patient in the outbreak, autopsied him, took appropriate samples, isolated the virus, and showed that the virus was, indeed, closely related to, if not identical to, Machupo virus. Not long afterward, I was sent to investigate a hemorrhagic fever outbreak outside the endemic region for Machupo virus, the only known hemorrhagic fever virus in Bolivia. I went to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratory in the Panama Canal Zone just as I finished my residency in internal medicine.

Mortian heavy battle tanks