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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... Company B had been deci- mated on Charlie , but Company C was relatively unscathed thanks to the smoke across the beach on Dog Green . Company D suffered casualties from mines , and Company H was caught on the boundary of Dog White and ...
... Company B had been deci- mated on Charlie , but Company C was relatively unscathed thanks to the smoke across the beach on Dog Green . Company D suffered casualties from mines , and Company H was caught on the boundary of Dog White and ...
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... Company demanded that those around him get up and run for the sea wall . But to do that meant risking the bullets , fighting through the barbed wire by hand and running across the shingle that was being peppered by mortars . Even when ...
... Company demanded that those around him get up and run for the sea wall . But to do that meant risking the bullets , fighting through the barbed wire by hand and running across the shingle that was being peppered by mortars . Even when ...
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... companies ( HQ , anti - tank , cannon and service ) . Each battalion was made up of three or four rifle companies and a heavy weapons company ( carrying heavy machine guns and mortars ) and totalled around 870 troops in all . A rifle ...
... companies ( HQ , anti - tank , cannon and service ) . Each battalion was made up of three or four rifle companies and a heavy weapons company ( carrying heavy machine guns and mortars ) and totalled around 870 troops in all . A rifle ...
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Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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