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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... raid until I think it was six or seven o'clock in the morning when the milkman came and said we'd invaded France and then we turned the radio on and it was Dieppe and the sky was black with planes , and we could hear the gunfire ...
... raid until I think it was six or seven o'clock in the morning when the milkman came and said we'd invaded France and then we turned the radio on and it was Dieppe and the sky was black with planes , and we could hear the gunfire ...
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... raid by the Anglo - American planners - the Combined Commanders - to insti- tute an attack upon one of a list of ports supplied , ' to persuade the enemy to react as if he were faced with actual invasion'.54 Dieppe was chosen and the ...
... raid by the Anglo - American planners - the Combined Commanders - to insti- tute an attack upon one of a list of ports supplied , ' to persuade the enemy to react as if he were faced with actual invasion'.54 Dieppe was chosen and the ...
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... raid on Trappes , west of Paris , which took place on the evening of 6 March . The rail centre was inoperative for a month afterwards but the raid on Le Mans on 7 March resulted in 31 French civilian deaths and the sudden appearance of ...
... raid on Trappes , west of Paris , which took place on the evening of 6 March . The rail centre was inoperative for a month afterwards but the raid on Le Mans on 7 March resulted in 31 French civilian deaths and the sudden appearance of ...
Contents
Contents | |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
Copyright | |
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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