Posted on 08/20/2012 10:28:10 AM PDT by the scotsman
“Such was the day for our regiment,
Dread the revenge we will take.
Dearly we paid for the blunder
A drawing-room General’s mistake.
“Why weren’t we told of the trenches?
Why weren’t we told of the wire?
Why were we marched up in column,
May Tommy Atkins enquire…”
Have you ever heard of Exercise Tiger that took place at Slapton Sands in 1944?
A poor attempt at revisionist justification
Perhaps is was an expensive way to show Stalin that the western allies were doing something. And as you said, it would keep alive in Nazi minds the possibility of Allied invasion across the Channel.
Had to look that up. Had heard of it before. Quite the cluster-***k.
I didn’t watch the entire presentation the ret’d general had, but this (the Russian-German part of WW2) was his post-service life work.
There were entire campaigns with multi-millions of men that are essentially missing from history books.
And, it’s generally acknowledged that the battle of Kursk was the largest assemblage of tanks ever brought into war. Nope, he had another battle that had a greater number of tanks and men that is curiously missing from all known histories. Turns out, that most histories of the great battles were derived from one source-—not one particular source, but a single source. Thus, later recounts of battles and the resources involved ended up repeating prior misinterpretations or counts of materiel.
Wrong war, understandable mistake as you missed most of it.
I have just watched the TV documentary on this research.
It is no revisionism, the historian has uncovered previously classified files, and they are gold. 24 carat gold.
What Prof O’Keefe, along with his other research, has and will blow away all previous theories on Dieppe. Its not revisionism, he has actually in black and white uncovered the evidence that shows the real reason for the raid.
If the documentary appears on US TV, watch it.
Thanks..... I’ll hunt it up. Do you recall the title of the program?
Hi.
Its called Dieppe Uncovered.
Just premiered on Canadian and British TV on Sunday, someone might upload on youtube soon, if they do, I will post it here.
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