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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... combat . Here , surely , was a manifestation of how the US had managed to tame the problem : 99.4 per cent of the US population involved in the greatest war it had ever fought ( beyond the American Civil War ) were never engaged in combat ...
... combat . Here , surely , was a manifestation of how the US had managed to tame the problem : 99.4 per cent of the US population involved in the greatest war it had ever fought ( beyond the American Civil War ) were never engaged in combat ...
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... combat soldier was not the distinction between the army and the paratroopers or the army and the air force , but between combat troops and those in the safety of the rear areas . In fact , only a small proportion of the huge number of ...
... combat soldier was not the distinction between the army and the paratroopers or the army and the air force , but between combat troops and those in the safety of the rear areas . In fact , only a small proportion of the huge number of ...
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... combat That ' reality of combat ' suggested that most soldiers went through a three phase experience as frontline fighters and the different phasing suggests that successful combat commanders may have been the ones who recognized the ...
... combat That ' reality of combat ' suggested that most soldiers went through a three phase experience as frontline fighters and the different phasing suggests that successful combat commanders may have been the ones who recognized 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