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 137
... Pointe du Hoc or Pointe du Hoe as it was initially known after a typographical error on the Allied maps . At 0251 hours , 11 miles off the coast - the minimum distance that would keep the fleet safe from the 155mm guns that were ...
... Pointe du Hoc or Pointe du Hoe as it was initially known after a typographical error on the Allied maps . At 0251 hours , 11 miles off the coast - the minimum distance that would keep the fleet safe from the 155mm guns that were ...
Page 377
... Pointe du Hoc . If that signal did not appear by H- Hour + 30 minutes Schneider was to land behind the 116th RCT on Omaha at Dog Green and make his way via ... Pointe du Hoc, gun emplacement Looking east from Pointe du Hoc along Baker Sector.
... Pointe du Hoc . If that signal did not appear by H- Hour + 30 minutes Schneider was to land behind the 116th RCT on Omaha at Dog Green and make his way via ... Pointe du Hoc, gun emplacement Looking east from Pointe du Hoc along Baker Sector.
Page 379
... Pointe - de - la - Percée for the Pointe du Hoc . As a result two things happened . First , the bombardment had stopped , allowing the defenders to return to their guns and fire upon the attackers , at least until 0710 when Satterlee ...
... Pointe - de - la - Percée for the Pointe du Hoc . As a result two things happened . First , the bombardment had stopped , allowing the defenders to return to their guns and fire upon the attackers , at least until 0710 when Satterlee ...
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