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... with rapidity. From D-Day to the end in Western Europe, British casualties were 189,000. During the first month of the Battle of the Somme our casualties amounted to 196,0001 This dramatic difference was due to the adoption of methods of warfare in which ...
... to that of Chesne Populeux. The GERMAN communique, issued from the Fuehrer's headquarters, stated: In a four-day battle in the Somme and Oise district the German infantry and armoured divisions in close collaboration with the Air Force, have defeated ...
... first tanks had a most demoralising effect on the German troops in the Battle of the Somme, and enabled the British forces to make their biggest gains in a single operation since the battle began. How did the Germans acknowledge that rout ? Said their communique ...
... Front. We will get back in to be some hard fightini o the Continent, but before we get back there will have In the Battle of the Somme, in the last war, we lost 60,000 of the flower of the British Army on the first day, but the German Army was finally ...
... able tracts ever shunned by really happened at Ladysmith ? man. Are you interested in the Yet for the British Empire Battle of the Somme ? Fine ! and to the Third Reich it can Now here's a chap who was easily, be the key to the owner- actually there. Push ...
... invent the tank. We thought every schoolboy knee, that the tank was invented by, and first used by, Britain at the Battle of the Somme, on Septeinber 15, 1916 Didn't you reaa anything in those days? Hand•some Letter from WILFIE, Christchurch She (a blonde) ...
... RNAS —forerunner of the Fleet Air Arm—on the outbreak of ~he last war. As an airman he led a fighter squadron into the Battle of the Somme—an exploit that won him the D.S.O.—and when the war ended he abandoned the Navy and went into the RAF. In this war he ...
... the Hitler Line in this sector, but we are tapping into it. The Germans are comparing the Italy fighting with the battles of the Somme, Verdun and Flanders. German losses have been heavy. Our own losses, according to a high officer on General Alexander's ...