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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... British Chief of the Imperial General Staff , Sir Alan Brooke , pledged that ' We could definitely count on re - entering the continent in 1944 on a large scale . ' Lieutenant - General Sir Frederick Morgan was appointed to the newly ...
... British Chief of the Imperial General Staff , Sir Alan Brooke , pledged that ' We could definitely count on re - entering the continent in 1944 on a large scale . ' Lieutenant - General Sir Frederick Morgan was appointed to the newly ...
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... British imperial inter- ests in the Mediterranean , and the Soviet imperial interests in Eastern Europe and the Balkans . As Roosevelt said just prior to the Cairo confer- ence , ' there would definitely be a race for Berlin . We have ...
... British imperial inter- ests in the Mediterranean , and the Soviet imperial interests in Eastern Europe and the Balkans . As Roosevelt said just prior to the Cairo confer- ence , ' there would definitely be a race for Berlin . We have ...
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... British Army is how it managed to survive the Second World War at all ... Imperial defence ; it was led by an officer corps that retained its ... British Army did not prevail through all the units however , and the elite groups tended to ...
... British Army is how it managed to survive the Second World War at all ... Imperial defence ; it was led by an officer corps that retained its ... British Army did not prevail through all the units however , and the elite groups tended to ...
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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