Leadership, Management and Command: Rethinking D-DayThe author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side. Instead he provides an account of the battle through the overarching nature of the relationship between the leaders and their followers. |
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Page 145
... German tanks facing the Americans German tanks facing the British Figure 6.3 Comparison of German tanks facing US and UK forces , 15 June - 25 July 1944 ( 320 long - range bombers , ten reconnaissance aircraft , 65 fighter- bombers , 75 ...
... German tanks facing the Americans German tanks facing the British Figure 6.3 Comparison of German tanks facing US and UK forces , 15 June - 25 July 1944 ( 320 long - range bombers , ten reconnaissance aircraft , 65 fighter- bombers , 75 ...
Page 279
... most British tank turrets could not be re - engineered to cope with the increased recoil . Initially this did not necessarily matter for most 1940 German - tanks were equally poorly armoured and gunned . Indeed TECHNOLOGIES 279.
... most British tank turrets could not be re - engineered to cope with the increased recoil . Initially this did not necessarily matter for most 1940 German - tanks were equally poorly armoured and gunned . Indeed TECHNOLOGIES 279.
Page 424
... Germans lost 250 tanks , which should not have been a major problem since this coin- cided with the peak of German tank production - but only 17 replace- ment tanks made it into Normandy in that period , so intense was the aerial ...
... Germans lost 250 tanks , which should not have been a major problem since this coin- cided with the peak of German tank production - but only 17 replace- ment tanks made it into Normandy in that period , so intense was the aerial ...
Contents
Part Two Leadership and Wicked Problems | 19 |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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29th Division Airborne Division aircraft Allied American Armoured Division artillery attack Badsey Balkoski Battalion battery battle bluffs bombardment bombers bombing Botting Bradley Brigade Caen Calais Canadian captured casualties cent Chandler and Collins Churchill combat commanders Company Corps counter-attack D-Day DD tanks defenders destroyed destroyers DUKWs Eiler Eisenhower enemy fighter fighting fire forces France French glider Gold Beach Hitler Infantry Division invasion June Juno Juno Beach killed landing craft LCTs leadership Linderman London Luftwaffe machine guns miles military Montgomery move naval Neillands Normandy Normann officers Omaha Beach Operation Ouistreham Panzer Division paratroopers Pitcairn-Jones Pointe du Hoc Quoted in Ambrose Quoted in Blandford Quoted in Collier Quoted in Delaforce Quoted in Kilvert-Jones Quoted in Linderman Rangers Regiment rifle Rommel Royal Rundstedt Ryan Sergeant shells Sherman ships soldiers St Lô strategy suggested Sword Beach target troops units Utah Utah Beach vehicles Wehrmacht Wicked Problem