236:(the invasion of southern France), but the British generally and Churchill particularly always advocated defeating the Germans in northern Italy and moving across the head of the Adriatic into the Balkans. The various landings by French (and Belgian, if I recall) SAS units in Brittany were mounted specifically to draw German forces away from Normandy, partly by causing disruption in the German rear areas and partly by inciting large-scale revolts by the local Resistance. These operations would never have been launched in isolation; their purpose was entirely subordinate to the Normandy invasion.
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France which preceded the landings, would it be excluded from the campaign box because most of the raids took place by design outside
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American units moved out of Normandy into Brittany. (They seem to forget that many if not most of them turned back into Normandy to take part in the fighting around the Falaise pocket.) If anyone were to write an article on the Allied air raids against the German lines of communication in
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It seems to me it was not spelled that way. The
Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War has one mention of Totalise (in the index, probably a typo), but 73 throughout the text for Totalize. Likewise, Google shows 2,000 hits for "Operation Totalise" (in quotations - and many of
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311:) or neither operation in particular should of course be excluded. I propose to restore the naval engagement off Ushant and the American and Free French capture of Paris as being part of Overlord even if they took place outside Normandy. The SAS operations such as the ill-fated
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Normandy landings because 100 000 German soldiers could not go easily from Brittany to Normandy. Railways, bridges, roads were attacked by Free French SAS and Maquis fighters. Trains and trucks were stopped often in Brittany. -- Marc DANIEL 15h30, 5 August 2010.
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Overlord was to be in Berlin before the Russians, before Christmas !! The Normandy landing was the first step only. But it was hard to win in Normandy (3 months). Marc DANIEL, Brittany, 15h01, 6 August 2010.
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Subordinate but were they part of the
Normandy landings, given the two examples above which were also in France and started 6 June 1944, where do draw the line for part of Normandy of part of the wider Western Front.
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Italian campaign had far wider strategic aims than merely pinning down German units. The Americans and French admittedly drew substantial forces away from Italy to mount
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128:. The 4th SAS battalion (2ème R.C.P.) was included in operation Overlord and moved to Fairford airbase at the end of May.-- Marc DANIEL, Brittany, France 8:17 5 August 2010 --
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No ideas, i would suggest a formatting error that should be removed. Perhaps when the italics were added around LĂĽttich it was to do with it being a German word?--
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