'Walter' (ii) was a British two-brigade attack, by Major General L. G. Whistler’s 3^rd Division of Lieutenant General Sir Richard O’Connor’s VIII Corps within Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2^nd Army, on the German positions round village of Vaudry near Vire on the south-western edge of the Allied 'Overlord' lodgement area in the Normandy region of German-occupied northern France (9 August 1944).

The opposition was found by Generalleutnant Richard Schimpf’s 3^rd Fallschirmjägerdivision and elements of SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Heinz Harmel’s 10^th SS Panzerdivision 'Frundsberg' under the command of Generalleutnant Eugen Meindl’s II Fallschirmkorps within SS-Oberstgruppenführer under Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Paul Hausser’s 7^th Army.