The plan for the Battle of the Somme was to assemble a huge new army of soldiers. The men and supplies would be stockpiled in the reserve trenches. German trenches would be bombarded solidly for 7 days. The British fired over 1,500,000 shells at the German lines, which should have destroyed the German dug-outs (which were 9 metres deep), tear up their barbed wire and kill most of the Germans. Also 10 mines would be dug under the German strong points.
During the attack the US army had no real opposition. Only one American soldier was killed; in addition to this another 6 of the soldiers were injured by mines and traps. Seventy to eighty percent of the victims were personally killed by Calley as he had took the weapon from soldiers who had refused to carry on with the killings and killed 2 groups of civilians. Calley just said ‘he was just following orders’ and another soldier mentioned that most of the US
“While being lifted onto an LST, he was almost dropped into the sea, having only been caught by the foot. After laying in the hold with hundreds of other wounded, he finally got a spot on the USS Samaritan.”(Standring Pg.5) Happily, the flag went up on Suribachi, just before Lucas was shipped off to Honolulu. Lucas went under the knife twenty two times before the doctors were finished. “Surprisingly, there are about 200 pieces of scrap iron still in him, some the size of .22-caliber bullets, which to this day, constantly set off airport metal detectors.”(Carpenter Pg.1) After close to seven months, Lucas was in good enough shape to be separated and put up for the Medal of Honor. At the time, the young man did not even know what it was, claimed “I went there to do one thing, and that was to
They died quickly as they got shoot by bullets or breathed in poisonous gas. The third detail important to the story is the German soldiers were at the front lines of the battle field fighting for a long time. Also significant is the young German soldiers actually spent years in their
It left Australia in early may 1915 and trained in Egypt for a month and then landed on Anzac Cove on the 20th of August. The battalion’s first role in the war was the attack on hill 60. The battle was a loss as it was poorly planned and executed Conditions in the trenches were desperately hard for Frederick Barling. With the trenches being so roughly dug out at the peninsula and protected only by
Only those that went through the Berlin zoo crossing the bridge over the Havel Canal into Spandau succeeded in crossing through the Soviet lines. Very few of those that made it out of the city were able to surrender to Western Allies most being killed by the Soviet outer encirclement forces holding positions west of the city. At 0600 on 2 May General Weidling surrendered his staff in the Reichstag. Fighting continued sporadically throughout the day but all major combat had ceased. All buildings that contained defenders refusing to surrender were reduced to rubble by artillery bombardment.
During the battle of El Alamein, Rommel had Failures in six of the nine principles and successes in only three. Rommel’s failures were in the offensive, objective, mass, maneuver, security, and surprise lead to his demise in the African desert handing the British their first victory of WWII. Offensive definition is to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative (Army, 2008). During all his battles Rommel was known for seizing the initiative except for the El Alamein, after being turned away at the Alma el Halfa ridge Rommel had to return and set up defensive position at El Alamein (Harvey 2008). Rommel no longer had the initiative, it was seized by Montgomery, Rommel knows had to sit and wait for Montgomery to attack after being stop on his tracks.
Battle of the Bulge Essay Germany was clearly losing the war. The Red Army was marching in on the Eastern front and the Allied Forces were decimating German occupied cities with heavy bombing on the Western front. Hitler knew that unless the Allied Forces could be stopped, the war would be over in a matter of months. He soon came up with an attack plan. Hitler sat down with Wilhelm Kertel and Alfred Jodl to give a status report on the German Army.
It was in the Dynamo room where British Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsey planned out Operation Dynamo and updated Sir Winston Churchill along the way. [3] Due to wartime censorship and the want to keep the British morale up, the full degree of the disaster around Dunkirk was not published. The initial plan was the recovery of 45, 000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force within two days. [4] They expected the German forces would be able to block further evacuation. Britain expected the Luftwaffe would be the main force to block the evacuation.
forces a total of six times before the Germans were finally expelled. Also captured were the nearby villages of Vaux and Bouresche. The battle ran from 6-26 June and by its end saw U.S. forces suffer 9,777 casualties, of which 1,811 were fatal. The number of German casualties is not known, although some 1,600 troops were taken prisoner. More critically, the combined Chateau-Thierry/Belleau Wood action brought to an end the last major German offensive of the war.