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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... troops slogged it out in training . Charles Cawthon was a Second Lieutenant of an infantry platoon with a US brigade ... troops and matériel for the invasion of the Continent , but we were not aware of this . ' The choice of training ...
... troops slogged it out in training . Charles Cawthon was a Second Lieutenant of an infantry platoon with a US brigade ... troops and matériel for the invasion of the Continent , but we were not aware of this . ' The choice of training ...
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... troops in the process , though he was subsequently dismissed . 10 The result of this polarity in the German command system was that German troops in the field almost always proved more than a match for most of the Allied units facing ...
... troops in the process , though he was subsequently dismissed . 10 The result of this polarity in the German command system was that German troops in the field almost always proved more than a match for most of the Allied units facing ...
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... troops or supplies which ensured that sooner or later victory would be achieved and therefore there was little need for heroics . And , most significantly , from 1943 the Germans were primarily fighting a defensive war where most of the ...
... troops or supplies which ensured that sooner or later victory would be achieved and therefore there was little need for heroics . And , most significantly , from 1943 the Germans were primarily fighting a defensive war where most of 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