[WarInEur] Re: Forcing Riverlines

[Lawrence Duffield]

Soviet practice was to try very hard to grab multiple bridgeheads  
over the next riverline BEFORE they were defended, dig in, build up  
slowly and then attack out of them in conjunction with the mother of  
all artillery barrages from the east bank.  Opposed river crossings,  
per se, were avoided, though several earlier bad experiences  
demonstrated why.

On May 3, 2007, at 9:00 AM, warineur-request at mailman.halisp.net wrote:

> The loss of the Dnepr line  showed that the soviets could bounce a  
> river
> with ease, but against that, it must be allowed, that the Gerrmans  
> were
> in extremis, and particularly hard put to creating a defensive  
> position
> to enable any sort of effective opposition.

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