[WarInEur] RE: WarInEur Digest, Vol 35, Issue 5

[sgminfo]

Wardall Clark wrote:
> Pointe du Hoc represents on a small scale the fog of War in action.

Merville and the sacrifice of the assault teams there also ranks high....

After the battle the seized  emplacement was found to contain guns 
incapable of reaching the beaches...and thus militarily only of very 
local significance, and irrelevent to the landings.

But military logic results in one mistake generating another. The 
Germans, convinced that the efforts made to capture this unimportant 
battery, meant it was vital to the allies, set in train determined 
efforts to deny the site to the allies, thus the site changed hands 
several times (ultimately  pointlessly) over the next couple of weeks, 
at great cost to both sides.


-|Steve|-
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