Technically, Wikimedia, but essentially yes. I did change the first line so it seemed better.Source? Wikipedia?
Technically, Wikimedia, but essentially yes. I did change the first line so it seemed better.Source? Wikipedia?
Strongly suggest you go back and make it clearer that this is a copy paste from wikimedia with only a minor edit by you, before someone accuses you of plagiarism.Technically, Wikimedia, but essentially yes. I did change the first line so it seemed better.
GREECE
9th Army (UK Command and Logistics)
ITALY/ADRIATIC LITTORAL
- I Greek Corps
- 21st Indian Corps
- 5th (UK) Corps
- 1st Australian Corps
15th Army Group (UK Command)
8th British Army (UK Logistics)
3 Corps
~10 Divisions
5th US Army (US Logistics) (veteran units are reinforcing US 7th Army, to be replaced by green units from CONUS)
2 Corps + Brazilian Expeditionary Force
~6 Infantry Divisions
FRANCE
Operation Dragoon (US Command)
6th Army Group
1st French Army (US Logistics)
3 Corps HQ
8 Infantry Divisions
2 Armored Divisions
1st Polish Army (50% US Logistics, 50% UK Logistics)
2 Corps HQ
3 Infantry + 2 Armored Divisions
7th US Army (US Logistics)
2 Corps HQ
6 Infantry + 1 Armored Division
Operation Overlord (US Command)
21st Army Group (UK Command & Logistics)
2nd British Army
4 Corps
11 Infantry, 5 Armored, 1 Airborne Division
1st Canadian Army
2 Canadian Corps
4 Infantry, 2 Armoured Divisions
1 UK Corps
2 Infantry, 1 Armoured Division (Czech, Dutch and Belgian units included)
12th Army Group (US Command and Logistics)
1st Army
3 Corps (11 Infantry, 4 Armored Divisions)
3rd Army
3 Corps ( 8 Infantry, 5 Armored Divisions)
9th Army (follow-on force to deploy to Continent )
TBD
1st Allied Airborne Corps (back in barracks in England)
I don't know why you would suggest plagiarism. I immediately recognised it as the original and simply assumed he had a bad translation. Anyone with a knowledge of French history would have simply smiled and nodded.Strongly suggest you go back and make it clearer that this is a copy paste from wikimedia with only a minor edit by you, before someone accuses you of plagiarism.
I’m not saying it is plagiarism, I’m saying that the way it was posted leaves him open to accusations of it, which could easily be avoided. I also think you’re assuming a degree of knowledge that isn’t necessarily reasonable.Anyone with a knowledge of French history would have simply smiled and nodded.
Why yes, there happens to be an army that is now completely cut off from its supply sources.^^^Close to shutting the door to Italy (from France anyway)
Yeah, and the Germans only have one mountain pass with a road to retreat, le Col du Petit Saint-Bernard (between Aosta and Bourg-Saint-Maurice). And the way can be shut by taking Albertville.^^^I looked at a modern map of the area and Chambery is the main road hub from Lyon(and points north and west) to Italy. The nearest major road hub to the north(not in Allied control) is Geneva - in Switzerland. "The way is shut!"
Almost a week late with this question... How does this version of the Falaise pocket compare to the historic campaign - given that the front end of the campaign is different ITTL?Falaise, France June 28, 1944
Silence filled the air. If one strained their ears hard enough, they could hear tank treads squeaking in the distance and batteries of Long Toms firing. But now, there was silence on a battlefield that had led to a third of the German 7th Army to be destroyed, a third to have escaped and a third to have surrendered. German prisoners were active on the killing grounds. They wore masks and gloves as stretcher bearers moved bodies to piles where identification was attempted. Sometimes the remains had a tag or a notebook or a card in their pocket, but most bodies were unknown. More prisoners had been handed shovels and picks after they had received a hot breakfast. American and Canadian engineers had marked out half a dozen mass graves and now the prisoners were slowly moving the dirt away to bury the bodies that only luck and happenstance were not their own.
Not knowing the overall flow of ships crossing to Korea, four sunk in ten days seems like a painful rate of attrition - just at that single point.Near Pusan, Korea July 4, 1944
The Darien Maru was quickly taking on water. A single mine had ripped open the middle portion of her port side hull. Half an hour later, over six hundred men were in the water waiting to be rescued. She was the fourth ship sunk by mines within sight of the Korean port in the past ten days.
Pusan was the third biggest port in the Japanese Empire, the largest outside Japan so it started off at least with hundreds of ships ( if you count Sampans ) a week, also lots of ships from other places would pass that point if they were hugging the coast and travelling only at night to try and avoid detection by allied planes/submarines.Not knowing the overall flow of ships crossing to Korea, four sunk in ten days seems like a painful rate of attrition - just at that single point.
I'm curious about 'Cinq Ports'. I've heard of the 'Cinque Ports' in the UK, but is 'Cinq Ports' some general French or WW2 French equivalent?Near Pas de Calais, July 4, 1944
The trio of minesweepers had already cleared half a dozen mines. The sweep gear would bring the mines up, and then machine gun and rifle fire would detonate the steel eggs. It was nerve wracking for the hostilities only crews. They were in small wooden ships, steaming in straight lines at eight knots while within range of German coastal defense guns. Most of the German armies were retreating, but the garrisons in the Cinq Ports had not moved yet. Two minesweepers had been shelled the night before. Shrapnel had claimed the lives of three matelots in the squadron and wounded another dozen.
Tonight, the danger was not the coastal guns. Instead, a pair of E-boats had crept out the port at low power and had almost drifted with the currents until the minesweepers were detached from the MTBs that were the local covering force. The two E-boats dashed in at full speed and their guns soon lit one of the minesweepers on fire, and damaged another. Eleven minutes later, they had turned to the coast, and the heavy guns were ready to damage any steel ships that gave chase.
No, it is shitty spelling on my partI'm curious about 'Cinq Ports'. I've heard of the 'Cinque Ports' in the UK, but is 'Cinq Ports' some general French or WW2 French equivalent?