June 6, 1944: Gold, Sword, Juno Beach. 6/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland
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🗓️ 5 June 2023
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June 6, 1944: Gold, Sword, Juno Beach. 6/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08YS123SZ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
In the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand out, and among the most notable were the Sherwood Rangers. Originally a cavalry unit in the last days of horses in combat, whose officers were landed gentry leading men who largely worked for them, they were switched to the “mechanized cavalry” of tanks in 1942. Winning acclaim in the North African campaign, the Sherwood Rangers then spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944; led the way across France; were the first British troops to cross into Germany, and contributed mightily to Germany’s surrender in May 1945.
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| 0:36.4 | This is CBS Island the world I'm John Batchy with the historian James Holland |
| 0:40.1 | his new book his brothers and arms one legendary tank regimen's bloody war from |
| 0:44.7 | D-Day to V-E Day the Sherwood Rangers Yomundray. Now we're into a big war picture. |
| 0:52.7 | The Allies have a long tail but they also have a long supply line and it's slowing them down |
| 0:59.1 | as they charge toward Germany. They need not only to capture the port of Antwerp but the long |
| 1:06.6 | passageway called the Sheldt to the to the port that Germans have reinforced and make it impossible |
| 1:13.4 | for ships to get through. At this point James the operation market card in which |
| 1:21.6 | was part of the Sherwood Rangers were at the edges of it. Market garden was an idea to punch |
| 1:28.6 | all the way through and it didn't fail so much as it ran into some bad luck. So how does |
| 1:34.4 | the disappointment of market garden lead into the winter battles for the Sheldt |
| 1:41.2 | lead into slowing the charge into Germany down? How do they all fit together James? |
| 1:46.5 | Well the idea for market garden is not a bad one on paper because the idea is that |
| 1:50.9 | the seafood line that Westwall the German border defense is runs up alongside Belgium and France |
| 1:57.6 | and Luxembourg but it doesn't really run up into the northern stretch of Holland because Holland |
| 2:01.9 | stretches round into kind of northern Germany and there's no border defenses between |
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