June 6, 1944: Gold, Sword, Juno Beach. 7/8: 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. 7/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland
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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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| 0:20.0 | This is CBS I On The World. I'm John Bachelors. |
| 0:22.4 | James Holland the historian his new book is Brothers in Arms. |
| 0:26.2 | Following one legendary tank regiment. |
| 0:29.4 | From D day to V E day. |
| 0:31.6 | We're approaching the secret line and then the Ryan River, which is its own barrier. |
| 0:37.2 | To the Allied advance towards Germany. |
| 0:41.0 | James what was operation veritable. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, so this is the big Canadian army pushed across through the rikes filed and take the towns of |
| 0:53.4 | Cleve and Gok in who's instantly with the general bill Simpson's US night army on their right hand flank and operation grenade and then close up to the river |
| 1:06.1 | Ryan. So this is clearing the Ryan land to the west of the river Ryan of the German. |
| 1:12.0 | German territory west of the river Ryan and it's a major major operational. |
| 1:17.8 | A lot of British second army units are transported to the Canadian army is a Canadian army led operation of which the show would range it apart. |
| 1:25.0 | And it's just you know it's just. |
| 1:27.8 | What do you get John is just this sort of mounting sense of the relentlessness of it. |
| 1:32.0 | I mean we've touched on our on point 103 and crossing the Nguarro and and Gale but but that's only half of it. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean there's a whole load of other operations that the show of range is involved in that we haven't mentioned because of time and all the rest of it. |
| 1:45.2 | It's just relentless and I think that's the thing that really struck me when I was doing this work and an operation was a major major operation. |
| 1:54.4 | And it's very destructive and lots of people get get hurt and killed and yet somehow they just keep going and and the other thing that's remarkable about the show of range is they never seem to lose sight of their humanity. |
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