From the source I am currently reading on the history of the 37th Tank Battalion, they are in constant contact with the enemy from 17 to 28 July 1944. It is not intensive, but daily sightings and the occasional rounds being exchanged near the lead units in the column. But on the 28th, the Battalion experiences its real test during its attack on Coutances and then Avranches, at the northern edge of the neck of Brittany, which fell on the 30th.

This next post the battalion is still in preparations, but the next after this one, things will get warmer and then hotter when we get to the time period of 28 - 30 July.

I am also reading [i]Sons of the Reich; II SS Panzer Corps[/i] by Michael Reynolds, MG (Ret.), British Army. MG Reynolds was a NATO Commander during his military career.