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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... fight on the seas and oceans , we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air , we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be . We shall fight. The beaches of France 1940 : lines of British and American ...
... fight on the seas and oceans , we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air , we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be . We shall fight. The beaches of France 1940 : lines of British and American ...
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... fight on the beaches , we shall fight on the landing grounds , we shall fight in the fields and in the streets , we shall fight in the hills , we shall never surrender ... ' That was worth a thousand guns , ' thought the Labour MP ...
... fight on the beaches , we shall fight on the landing grounds , we shall fight in the fields and in the streets , we shall fight in the hills , we shall never surrender ... ' That was worth a thousand guns , ' thought the Labour MP ...
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... fight would not be on the beaches but in the subsequent counter - attack by the infantry and tanks of the SS and Panzer divisions . And that real fight was not necessarily abhorrent to all beyond the bounds of the Waffen SS , for many ...
... fight would not be on the beaches but in the subsequent counter - attack by the infantry and tanks of the SS and Panzer divisions . And that real fight was not necessarily abhorrent to all beyond the bounds of the Waffen SS , for many ...
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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