Word: caen
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...series of articles for London's Sunday Dispatch, the tall, shy, young Oxford-bred newspaperman who traveled and argued with Britain's Field Marshal from El Alamein to Germany, flatly denied Ingersoll's charge that Monty lost the battle of Caen while the British outnumbered the enemy. He dismissed the Ingersoll version of the battle of the Ardennes, "which represents Montgomery as panicking and screaming ... as putting the British Army into full retreat, as nearly losing the battle by abandoning the offensive . . . and finally as trying to scoop all the credit for himself...
Once D-day had come and the Allies had their foothold in France, Montgomery decided, for reasons of "British credit and prestige," to smash the Germans at Caen without "the efforts of any Americans." He failed. "It was a defeat from which British arms on the Continent never recovered," writes Ingersoll. It was not even "a successful sacrifice play." When Bradley went ahead on his great sweep down through Saint Lô and east and north beyond Paris, the British "simply moved along the coast of France" from Caen to the Belgian border. Had Bradley been given ample fuel supplies...
...prosecution had spent 15 months preparing the evidence in the impressive 8,000-word indictment. It charged that Meyer had ordered his men to take no prisoners, had been directly or indirectly responsible for the murder of 48 Canadian soldiers taken in the fierce fighting in the Caen beachhead area after Dday...
...Each voice, in the inflection of its own part of the world and in the jargon of a particular martial trade, gives one molecular view of the campaign. A Brooklyn tankman tells of his disgust when his tank runs out of gas, a Canadian describes the hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly petulant American supply officer tells of "a very humiliating experience" when Patton's men kept...
...British Second is now the most fully rested of Eisenhower's seasoned armies. Direct offspring of Britain's famed Eighth (which Monty rolled from El Alamein to Tunis, and which is now bogged down in Italy), the Second had the hard job of holding the anchor at Caen, in Normandy, while Bradley's men made their spectacular breakout. The Second now carries the main burden of British hope and British pride in western Europe. It has had no full-scale action since it pushed the Germans behind the Maas River last autumn...