"Operation Biting – The Bruneval Raid and the Making" Topic
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| Tango01 | 23 Jan 2020 12:39 p.m. PST |
… of the British First Airborne Division. "BY THE END of 1941, RAF Bomber Command losses had reached record levels. Despite flying missions at night and flying evasive courses, German fighters and anti-aircraft batteries always seemed to know where to find the British bombers. Scientists in the U.K. suspected Germany had developed new radar capabilities; intelligence reports supported the idea. It appeared that the Germans had developed a low-band UHF radar system codenamed Würzburg. But it wasn't until a photoreconnaissance plane brought back an image of a saucer-shaped structure on the French coast near Saint-Jouin-Bruneval that the reports were confirmed. British researchers were confident they could develop counter-measures to defeat the Nazi radar, but first they needed a sample of the technology. Military planners led by Lord Louis Mountbatten, commander of the Royal Navy Combined Operations Department, soon set to work on a plan to capture a piece of that technology. They immediately determined an assault from the sea was impossible; high cliffs along the shoreline and German fortifications would make any amphibious attack suicidal. The only way for raiders to reach the Bruneval radar installation was by parachute; the assault would be carried out air using the newly formed British 1st Parachute Brigade…." link Main page
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Amicalement
Armand
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 Legion 4   | 23 Jan 2020 4:14 p.m. PST |
Excellently executed raid ! |
| Tango01 | 24 Jan 2020 11:52 a.m. PST |
were long kept "behind the curtain" by Soviet censorship. For example, the 183rd Rifle Division defending the Prokhorovka axis was repeatedly struck by friendly aircraft, and a Soviet tank counterattack overran the positions of one of its battalions. Zamulin discusses other cases of fratricide in the Voronezh Front, including the death of one of the 1st Tank Army's foremost tank commanders in a friendly fire incident. In the process, he reveals that a wave of suicides swept through the junior command staff of the 5th Guards Tank Army immediately prior to the famous counteroffensive on 12 July 1943. All in all, Valeriy Zamulin with this collection of essays and articles, two of which have been reprinted from the Journal of Slavic Military History, makes a new contribution to our knowledge and understanding of this pivotal, epochal battle of the Second World War."
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Have anyone read this book?
If the answer is yes… comments please?
thanks in advance for your guidance.
Amicalement
Armand
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