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 65
... destroyed for no palpable gain and the 3rd Group was stood down to await reinforcements since they had run out of aircraft.33 The German fighter cover was provided primarily by the 168 Me 109s and FW 190s of the 1st Group of the II ...
... destroyed for no palpable gain and the 3rd Group was stood down to await reinforcements since they had run out of aircraft.33 The German fighter cover was provided primarily by the 168 Me 109s and FW 190s of the 1st Group of the II ...
Page 69
... destroyed , 83 aircraft were destroyed on the ground and 20 shot down in the air . By D - Day they had destroyed 475 locomotives and cut railway lines in 150 places . 58 Sealing off the invasion area from the south and east was also ...
... destroyed , 83 aircraft were destroyed on the ground and 20 shot down in the air . By D - Day they had destroyed 475 locomotives and cut railway lines in 150 places . 58 Sealing off the invasion area from the south and east was also ...
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... destroy coastal fortifications . ... However limited was the effect of the naval bombardment even fewer of the fortifications had been destroyed by the pre - invasion air bomb- ing . The official diary of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles ...
... destroy coastal fortifications . ... However limited was the effect of the naval bombardment even fewer of the fortifications had been destroyed by the pre - invasion air bomb- ing . The official diary of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles ...
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