 Most of the LXXXVI Corps artillery was beyond the ridge covering the Caen–Falaise road.Facing Caen to the west of the Caen–Falaise road was the I SS Panzer Corps.On 14 July, elements of the 272nd Infantry Division took over the defence of Vaucelles from the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, who moved into local reserve between the village of Ifs and the east bank of the Orne.