[freefdny]

http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=110
http://www.historynet.com/why-anvil-gets-no-respect.htm

“One of the last articles was interesting in it’s implication on the importance of logistics in a campaign of this size.”
I am also learning a great deal about the invasion of the south of France and the importance of logistics. Two articles above about operation Anvil/Dragoon. British didn’t want it but Ike won out. Marseille will now see 25% of Allied shipping pass through it.

[Stosh]

Thanks much for those wonderfully interesting articles. I’m not a real student of history, but I did take courses back when they actually taught history in college history classes, and until this morning I never even knew we had staged an amphibious landing in the South of France, let alone the ultimate (if largely unrecognized) consequences of it.