By Philip Kaplan
For far of worldwide battle II England supplied the one western eu base from which the British and American air forces may possibly take the warfare into Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany itself. the yankee 8th and 9th Air Forces struck enemy ambitions by way of day at nice distances, usually on raids of 8 or 9 hours length, whereas the RAF flew such a lot of its not easy missions at evening. This hugely illustrated e-book will show what it used to be like for pilots, aircrew and flooring team in the course of their wartime provider. It not just takes the reader on common USAAF and RAF raids, however it additionally depicts the paintings of the mechanics and fitters as they struggled to maintain battered airplane airworthy, how the medics coped with the numerous wounded who lower back from the raids and appears at the place the airmen comfy in the quite a few bases or within the neighborhood villages and cities. it's going to contain interval and later photos of the bases, the plane, memorials and proper destinations in Britain, France and Germany. it is going to be a brilliant and robust human expression of the bomber airmen's wartime event.
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W. Palk of the Hampshires, Colonel Thicknesse of the Somersets, Colonel Wood of the Rifle Brigade, and Colonel Franklin of the 6th Warwicks, all killed; while Colonels Innes of the 8th Warwicks, Hopkinson of the Seaforths, and Green of the East Lancashires were wounded. For a long time a portion of the enemy's trench was held by mixed units, but it was of no value when detached from the rest and was abandoned in the evening. From the afternoon onwards no possible course save defence was open to General Lambton.
The South Staffords came into a fatal blast of machine-gun fire as they dashed forward, and their track was marked by a thick litter of dead and wounded. None the less, they poured into the trenches opposite to them but found them strongly held by infantry of the Fifty-second German Division. There was some fierce bludgeon work in the trenches, but the losses in crossing had been too heavy and the survivors were unable to make good. The trench was held by the Germans and the assault repulsed. The North Staffords had also won their way into the front trenches, but in their case also they had lost so heavily that they were unable to clear the trench, which was well and stoutly defended.
This sector of attack, together with the one farther south which faced the Third Corps, presented peculiar difficulties to the assailants, as the ground sloped upward to the strong village of Thiepval with the ridge behind it, from which German guns could sweep the whole long glacis of approach. Nowhere were there more gallant efforts for a decision and nowhere were they more hopeless. The division to the north of the Tenth Corps was the Thirtysixth Ulster Division. This division was composed of magnificent material, for the blend of Scot and Celt to be found in the North of Ireland produces a soldier who combines the fire of the one with the solidity of the other.