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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ochsenkopf
This is what came up when I queried 'Steamroller Farm' a nefarious and bloody hard fought battle of the North African Campaign against Rommel.
You could assume every WWII land battle was like this or even worse. The description of the operation serves to bring out how bloody and difficult the fighting was.
The description of the campaign provides a more balanced view of the utility of the supposedly inferior Churchill infantry tank. An apples to apples comparison.
Caption says men of the Sherwood Foresters turn a German mg on the former owners. I don't know what campaign the pic was from.
I could not find a pic of British troops charging with fixed bayonets through karst terrain strewn with body parts. It is out there, and was something I saw in a Ballantyne WWII history book.
References: Watson, Bruce Allen (2007). Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942–43. Stackpole Military History. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole. ISBN 978-0-8117-3381-6.
Perrett, Bryan (1993). Churchill Infantry Tank 1941–51. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-85532-297-4.
I have not read the books.
Further:
Atkinson, Rick (2013). An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. The Liberation Trilogy. I. London: Hachette UK. ISBN 978-1-40552-727-9.
Coggins, Jack (1980). The Campaign for North Africa. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-38504-351-9.
The weight of shells raining down on the Germans is difficult to get one's head around.
In the modern era, one of the British engagements that compares with regards to weight of bombardment raining down on the enemy is the Battle of Wireless Ridge in the Falklands Islands War. This is something you don't hear very much about but it happened.
Lest we forget.
This is what came up when I queried 'Steamroller Farm' a nefarious and bloody hard fought battle of the North African Campaign against Rommel.
You could assume every WWII land battle was like this or even worse. The description of the operation serves to bring out how bloody and difficult the fighting was.
The description of the campaign provides a more balanced view of the utility of the supposedly inferior Churchill infantry tank. An apples to apples comparison.
Caption says men of the Sherwood Foresters turn a German mg on the former owners. I don't know what campaign the pic was from.
I could not find a pic of British troops charging with fixed bayonets through karst terrain strewn with body parts. It is out there, and was something I saw in a Ballantyne WWII history book.
References: Watson, Bruce Allen (2007). Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942–43. Stackpole Military History. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole. ISBN 978-0-8117-3381-6.
Perrett, Bryan (1993). Churchill Infantry Tank 1941–51. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-85532-297-4.
I have not read the books.
Further:
Atkinson, Rick (2013). An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. The Liberation Trilogy. I. London: Hachette UK. ISBN 978-1-40552-727-9.
Coggins, Jack (1980). The Campaign for North Africa. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-38504-351-9.
The weight of shells raining down on the Germans is difficult to get one's head around.
In the modern era, one of the British engagements that compares with regards to weight of bombardment raining down on the enemy is the Battle of Wireless Ridge in the Falklands Islands War. This is something you don't hear very much about but it happened.
Lest we forget.
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