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 337
... glider poles were being erected all over the designated gliding landing areas . This made it necessary to clear landing zones of 1,000 yards by 60 yards and to illuminate them with lights . The 6th Airborne Division then felled 100 ...
... glider poles were being erected all over the designated gliding landing areas . This made it necessary to clear landing zones of 1,000 yards by 60 yards and to illuminate them with lights . The 6th Airborne Division then felled 100 ...
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Rethinking D-Day Keith Grint. the glider to rebalance it.43 Whatever the distance Leigh Mallory later called it ' the finest feat of airmanship in the entire war'.44 The first glider , No. 91 , flown by Staff Sergeants Wallwork and ...
Rethinking D-Day Keith Grint. the glider to rebalance it.43 Whatever the distance Leigh Mallory later called it ' the finest feat of airmanship in the entire war'.44 The first glider , No. 91 , flown by Staff Sergeants Wallwork and ...
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... glider pilots : 600 landed in Normandy on D - Day itself and 580 came back for a second mission ( Collier , 1999 : 65 ) . Overall , 59 glider pilots ( 25 American and 34 British ) were killed in Normandy and 227 became casualties . A ...
... glider pilots : 600 landed in Normandy on D - Day itself and 580 came back for a second mission ( Collier , 1999 : 65 ) . Overall , 59 glider pilots ( 25 American and 34 British ) were killed in Normandy and 227 became casualties . A ...
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