You are right - the free play exercises staged within Home Forces resulted in encounter battles - but Montgomery, who had a bee in his bonnet...
Exercise BUMPER was set up in such a way so that an encounter battle was a likely - if not expected - event; two armies advancing to contact both...
Brooke was probably not a great commander. He was not as good a communicator as Montgomery or Patton, who marshalled media to project themselves...
Hello Sheldrake, Brooke was the right person for the CIGS hot seat and the country, if not Europe as a whole, should be immensely grateful of his...
The Second World War saw probably the largest military manoeuvres ever to take place on British soil. Inter-army exercise BUMPER, held in the...
exercise black eagle | WW2Talk [postwar] exercise bold grouse | WW2Talk [postwar] exercise bold guard | WW2Talk [postwar] exercise bumper |...
Gents Good evening, just had a read of this post good to hear more about 52nd Manchester Fd Regt (Manchester Artillery). i am a serving WO2 in...
As I pointed in my previous post, only the infantry battalions were under command of the brigade. In particular regiments of a divisional...
Have tidied up these diaries and filled in as many gaps as I could. Now in one continuous thread. (Some months still to transcribe.) TNA...
Some German Examples to get the ball rolling. 1. [IMG] Description: Krim, May 1942 In the fight around the peninsula Kertsch Specially...
In the months that followed, Brigadier Leach’s staff administered and trained, for varying lengths of time, a large number of units of all arms...
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