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Record 1 2005-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Strategy
CONT

Toronto's Queen's Own Rifles received the worst battering of any Canadian unit on D-Day ... The DD [duplex drive] tanks, supposed to "swim" in ahead of the infantry to diminish German resistance, had been forced by high waves to land after them -- within a few hundred yards of the muzzles of the beach defence guns", one tank commander recalled afterward.

Key term(s)
  • beach defense

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stratégie militaire
CONT

Au hasard des promenades, il est possible d'observer différents modèles de construction [...] Les casemates de flanquement de plage étaient situées à chaque extrémité de plage [...] L'entrée se faisait par une chicane à droite pour gêner un assaillant droitier. L'ouverture du champ de tir assez restreinte d'environ 60° permettait la défense de la plage.

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