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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... German High Command and was expected at any time from January 1944 on , but probably in the spring or June / July . Even taking into account the poor information gleaned by the Luftwaffe in May and June an array of simple errors by the ...
... German High Command and was expected at any time from January 1944 on , but probably in the spring or June / July . Even taking into account the poor information gleaned by the Luftwaffe in May and June an array of simple errors by the ...
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... German navy was less aristocratic in origin but more aristocratic in culture than the German army , and even when the British army became less dominated by the aristocracy , it still maintained its aristocratic culture . US army culture ...
... German navy was less aristocratic in origin but more aristocratic in culture than the German army , and even when the British army became less dominated by the aristocracy , it still maintained its aristocratic culture . US army culture ...
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... German soldier the future was much bleaker : either the Red Army would wreak revenge on the German population for the crimes of the Wehrmacht and the SS in the Soviet Union , or the Allies . would control Germany but on unconditional ...
... German soldier the future was much bleaker : either the Red Army would wreak revenge on the German population for the crimes of the Wehrmacht and the SS in the Soviet Union , or the Allies . would control Germany but on unconditional ...
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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