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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... wounds or disease and 4 per cent were wounded but lived . In contrast , by July 1944 over one third of the German army had been wounded once , 11 per cent had been wounded twice and 11 per cent had been wounded three times . The ...
... wounds or disease and 4 per cent were wounded but lived . In contrast , by July 1944 over one third of the German army had been wounded once , 11 per cent had been wounded twice and 11 per cent had been wounded three times . The ...
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... wounded or missing . 14 Within five days the 1st Division had suffered 1,638 casualties ( 1,083 wounded ; 555 dead or missing ) , while the 29th Division suffered 2,210 casualties ( 1,027 wounded ; 1,183 dead or missing [ includes 7 POW ] ...
... wounded or missing . 14 Within five days the 1st Division had suffered 1,638 casualties ( 1,083 wounded ; 555 dead or missing ) , while the 29th Division suffered 2,210 casualties ( 1,027 wounded ; 1,183 dead or missing [ includes 7 POW ] ...
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... wounded between D - Day and 17 November . In effect the battalion was wiped out twice . 18 On Sword the beach casualty figures totalled 630 . The British 6th Airborne Division suffered around 1,500 casualties , on D - Day and 4,500 in ...
... wounded between D - Day and 17 November . In effect the battalion was wiped out twice . 18 On Sword the beach casualty figures totalled 630 . The British 6th Airborne Division suffered around 1,500 casualties , on D - Day and 4,500 in ...
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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