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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. James Holland, the historian's new book is Brothers in Arms, one legendary tank regiment's bloody war from D-Day to VE Day. The Normandy campaign is a great success, sweeping over northern France, but the chase now,

as the Germans keep falling back to Belgium and then to Germany, and the Sherwood Ranger

Yeomanry is on the chase, moving more in a day than they've moved in weeks in Normandy.

It is now the autumn of 1944, and the ranks are always being filled by reinforcements.

And James, I think it's a good time to talk about the long tail and how it is that all these casualties

don't knock the Sherwood Rangers out of the war.

What is the long tail and why is it part of the big war concept being practiced?

Yeah, well, it's just a huge support in terms of maintenance supply.

And, you know, they have tank crews being trained constantly over in the UK,

and they're just coming in, and they're just sort of funneled in.

But, you know, a tank regiment like the show at Rangers, it's about 688 men, of which only about 329 are actually in tanks.

The rest of them are in what's called the A echelon and the B echelon, which is the support behind it.

So this is trucks and half tracks and what have you, bringing up supplies.

And it's the armored recovery vehicles.

So, you know, at the end of the day, if a tank's been left on the battleville,

but it hasn't been knocked out, they'll beetle around and whisked it back and change an engine or repair the tracks or

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