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... GERMANY'S WAR POTENTIAL COMPARED WITH THE OPENING DAY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. damage to the Germans has been tremendous. And it has been on their doorstep, which the Battle of the Somme was not. Calculations of experts have shown what a very great ...
... crews, he showed that such a loss represented only l-200th part of the casualties suffered on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, when we lost 57.500 men. So. allowing that the loss in tanks and guns was probably ...
... lines. It became independent corps after the war. Tanks were employed for the first time on the Western Front in the battle of the Somme in 1916. The Royal Army Ordnance Corps is of very long standing and responsible for the armament equipment and ordnance ...
... figures corresponding to 32 field-kitchens. This booty compares not unfavourably with that obtained after those of the battle of the Somme —the Soviet had taken various advance Finnish the Finnish victory at Suomusalmi in early January, when the Soviet 44th ...
... NOW SHOWN IN LONDON. THE FIRST WORLD WAR AGAINST GERMANY, 1914-18 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, NORTHERN FRANCE, SHOWING THE ATTACK OF THE CANADIAN CORPS THE QUEANT LOOP, SEPTEMBER igiB. x . v V THE BLITZ ON LONDON DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-45 1 TYPICAL ...
... jest which won him the Victoria Cross. It occurred on September 25, 1916, when the Ist Cheshires, during the prolonged battle of the Somme, captured the village of Morval and the ridge on which it stands. As the great prospect that opened up over the German ...
... Napoleonic battles though there the attrition was a matter of hours—and at Caen last summer, this has proved possible. In others, like the Somme of 1916 and Ypres of 1917, it has not. The question we are all now asking is whether in this case the battle of attrition ...
... Some people may be scared of the phrase, which to them recalls the Battle of the Somme. But attrition may be rapid or slow. Blenheim and Austerlitz were both 3i a very real sense battles of attrition, though they lasted only a few hours, and Napoleon’s ...