Brian Fee has worked on Cars 3 and the two earlier Cars movies.
World War II for Ecouche culminated with several days of street fighting by Free French forces under General Philippe Leclerc .. Free French. Free French. Philippe Leclerc. Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. This engagement was part of the encirclement of the remaining German army in the final engagement of the Battle of Normandy .. Battle of Normandy. Operation Overlord. This final carnage of the German army was later called the Falaise Pocket , the Argentan-Falaise Pocket or Couloir de la Mort -LRB- Corridor of Death -RRB- as the local French named it .. Falaise Pocket. Falaise Pocket. During World War II Ecouche 's buildings and homes suffered 15 % heavy damage from aerial bombing and street fighting during the liberation .. Most of the destruction followed the heavy bombing of the targeted railroad tracks , although the targets were never hit during two attempts .. Local residents think of the war years as divided into three phases  :. La Drole de Guerre - 1 September 1939 , to June 1940. General mobilisation. The Drole Guerre or '' False War ''. The exodus or `` Exode ''. German Occupation - June 1940 to August 1944. Military control , requisitions , restrictions. Local and national upheaval. Problems of supply shortages. Liberation - summer 1944. Aerial bombing and the Allied Landing on D-day , 6 June 1944. Battles for Liberation -13 -- 15 August 1944