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 47
... route to Berlin was from the east it might have been just as useful to deploy American units to the eastern beaches.99 The American first line ground assault forces were encamped in south- west England , with the 1st Division ( Omaha ) ...
... route to Berlin was from the east it might have been just as useful to deploy American units to the eastern beaches.99 The American first line ground assault forces were encamped in south- west England , with the 1st Division ( Omaha ) ...
Page 119
... route across the channel , that is from Dover to the Pas - de - Calais , as the French called it , and since the time at sea was also the time of maximum vulner- ability to air attack , the quickest and safest route across was there ...
... route across the channel , that is from Dover to the Pas - de - Calais , as the French called it , and since the time at sea was also the time of maximum vulner- ability to air attack , the quickest and safest route across was there ...
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... Route rbourg Carenton Portsmouth 3d Br . Div VII US CORPS VU.S. CORPS 30 Br . CORPS CORPS OMAHA R GOLD JUNO Newhaven 6th Br . Abn Div ( - ) SWORD Caen Orne Le Havre Dover STRAIT OF DOVER N Calais Boulogne PARIS 3 ALLIED ASSAULT ROUTES 6 ...
... Route rbourg Carenton Portsmouth 3d Br . Div VII US CORPS VU.S. CORPS 30 Br . CORPS CORPS OMAHA R GOLD JUNO Newhaven 6th Br . Abn Div ( - ) SWORD Caen Orne Le Havre Dover STRAIT OF DOVER N Calais Boulogne PARIS 3 ALLIED ASSAULT ROUTES 6 ...
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