Yanks and Limeys by Niall Barr

Author:Niall Barr [Niall Barr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House

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fn1 Giant was an airborne operation designed to drop the 82nd Airborne Division on to the airfields around Rome; Gangway was the projected landing of the Fifth Army north of Naples; Avalanche was the landing of the Fifth Army at Salerno; Buttress was a potential landing of the Eighth Army on the northern coast of Calabria; Baytown was the crossing of the Messina straits by the Eighth Army, while Goblet was an operation by 5 Corps against Crotone; Musket and Slapstick concerned two landings at Taranto.

fn2 The Great Western Railway, for example, had compared Cornwall with Italy for sunshine and beauty in a famous interwar poster campaign.

fn3 In the American Army of the Second World War, infantry and cavalry officers were far more likely to rise to field command than an officer from one of the specialist branches. It should also be pointed out that Heinz Guderian, the German ‘father’ of the Panzerwaffe, began his career as a signals officer.

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