This article is a continuation from one that Hawkeye developed onAmerican logistics in the Northern France campaign, and covers the period from September to December 1944. As the volume of material was considerable, he split the article into two parts; one about transportation, and one about supply. For much of the Siegfried campaign problems transporting supplies to the troops were a significant constraint on American operations, but these were eventually overcome, preparing the way for the final assault on Germany in 1945.
Another in HF's series on American Civil War battles, this episode took place on July 4, 1863, nearHelena, Arkansas.Union troops had captured the city in July 1862, and had been using it as a base of operations. Over 7,500Confederate troops attempted to capture Helena in hopes of relieving some of the pressure on the Confederate army besieged inVicksburg, Mississippi. Despite being outnumbered, the 4,100 Union troops defeated the Confederates' poorly coordinated attacks and inflicted heavy casualties. Union troops subsequently used Helena as a waypoint for their successful campaign to captureLittle Rock, Arkansas.
Hove War Memorial is aFirst World War memorial designed bySir Edwin Lutyens and located on Grand Avenue inHove, part of the city ofBrighton and Hove, on the south coast of England. Hove was the site of one of the earliest recruiting events at the beginning of the war and later of several military hospitals. Over 600 men from the town were killed during the war, a quarter of them from the local regiment alone. A war memorial committee was established in 1919 and Lutyens was engaged as architect, designing aTuscan column on a three-staged base, topped with a statue ofSaint George, patron saint of England. George, cast in the studio ofSir George Frampton, holds a sword by the blade in one hand and a shield in the other. The same statue, with variations, appears on several of Frampton's other monuments, includingFordham War Memorial in Cambridgeshire, also by Lutyens. The base contains several dedicatory inscriptions but no names, which are instead recorded on plaques in the town's library.
A Welsh scientist and authority onbiological warfare (BW), David Kelly (1944–2003) was one of theUN's chief weapons inspectors in Iraq. A year after the publication of the2002 dossier on Iraqiweapons of mass destruction—which stated that some of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons could be deployed within 45 minutes—Kelly had anoff-the-record conversation with aBBC journalist; the BBC broadcast that the 45-minute claim was included at the insistence ofAlastair Campbell, theDowning Street Director of Communications. Kelly denied he said Campbell had forced in the reference, and the government complained to the BBC, who refused to recant. Kelly informed managers in theMinistry of Defence that he may have been the source, but did not think he was the only one, as the BBC had reported points he had not mentioned. Kelly's name became known to the media, and he was called to appear before a parliamentaryselect committee. Two days later he was found dead near his home, an apparent suicide.
Another in Gog's series on thePunic Wars, his succinct description being "Hannibal arrives in Roman Italy and inflicts 100% casualties on a Roman army in a single day. A defeat simply begging for an adjective." It took place when Hannibal'sCarthaginians ambushed the Romans underGaius Flaminius in June 217 BC, on the north shore ofLake Trasimene, during theSecond Punic War. With the Carthaginians attacking unexpectedly from the flank and the rear, there was no chance for the Romans to form even a rudimentary fighting line and they were defeated after three hours' hard fighting. The trap failed to close on the 6,000 Romans at the front of the column, who escaped; later that day they were surrounded by pursuing Carthaginians and surrendered. Thus all 25,000 Romans in Flaminius's army were killed or captured. This destruction of an entire army as a result of such an ambush is widely considered a unique occurrence. For good measure, a few days later the Carthaginians wiped out the entirecavalry force of a second Roman army.
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