D-Day: Those who Were ThereThe logistics of landing almost 250,000 men on a 60-mile stretch of heavily fortified coastline are almost unimaginable. By Whitsun 1944, Britain had began to resemble a vast military warehouse, with jeeps and trucks parked along what seemed like every road in the south and west of England, tanks ranked in carparks and forecourts, and rows upon rows of bombs stored under tarpaulin in fields - all labelled "Europe". The roads were jammed with soldiers in transit, all trains were requisitioned for the troops, and women knew that their menfolk 'somewhere in southern England' might be one of that perilous first wave across the Channel. |
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... American First Army in north - west Europe had arrived in Britain for the first time only a couple of days before , so he decided to ' see something of the British peo- ple . ' Near Marble Arch , he came across the crowd around a ...
... American First Army in north - west Europe had arrived in Britain for the first time only a couple of days before , so he decided to ' see something of the British peo- ple . ' Near Marble Arch , he came across the crowd around a ...
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... American strategy mirrors karate and the British strategy embodies boxing ; neither is guaranteed success and neither requires greater bravery than the other - but they are different . In the end the American karateka failed to deliver ...
... American strategy mirrors karate and the British strategy embodies boxing ; neither is guaranteed success and neither requires greater bravery than the other - but they are different . In the end the American karateka failed to deliver ...
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... American men would only serve in labour battalions and insisted that they would enter all arms of the serv- ices , including the combat arms . But the Secretary of War , Stimson , was adamant that - Leadership is not embedded in the ...
... American men would only serve in labour battalions and insisted that they would enter all arms of the serv- ices , including the combat arms . But the Secretary of War , Stimson , was adamant that - Leadership is not embedded in the ...
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Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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Air Force Airborne Division aircraft Allied Ambrose American amphibious anti-tank Armoured Division artillery ashore assault Atlantic Wall attack Balkoski Battalion battery battle boats bombardment bombers bombing Bradley Britain Caen Calais Canadian captured casualties cent Chandler and Collins Cherbourg Churchill coast combat commanders Company Corps D-Day DD tanks defenders Delaforce destroyed Dieppe Dieppe raid DUKWs E-boats Eisenhower enemy fight fighter fire France French front glider going Group Hitler Infantry Division initial inland invasion June Juno Juno Beach killed Kilvert-Jones landing craft LCTs leaders leadership London Luftwaffe machine guns managed miles military Montgomery move naval Navy Neillands Normandy officers Omaha Beach Operation Overlord Panzer Division paratroopers Pas de Calais Pitcairn-Jones Pointe du Hoc Quoted raid Ramsey Regiment rifle Rommel Royal Rundstedt shells Sherman ships soldiers Soviet strategy success suggested Sword Beach target troops units Utah Utah Beach vehicles Wehrmacht Wicked Problem wounded