Problem No. 2
The text below concerns Normandy Campaign period.
Quote:
Originally written by Dominic Graham
The Fourth Armoured was not organized in infantry battalion/armoured regimental groups with artillery reps able to communicate to divisional headquarters, as was the fashion in the more experienced divisions by this time.
Source:
Dominick Graham
The Price of Command. A Biography of General Guy Simonds
Stoddart Publishing Co., Ltd., Toronto 1993
ISBN 0-7737-2692-6
page 153
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For today's historians it is very easy to criticize and to write about the effects but nobody analyses the causes. How and where inexperienced Canadian 4th Division or Polish 1st could know anything about modern battlefield communication system and its various procedures? Do not you think that a kind of Control Section of the Canadian 1st Army ought to check in pre-Normandy period how its divisions are organized and then correct their internal organization? Do not you think that in similar cases the Canadian 1st Army HQ is never guilty but the divisions have always been guilty?
Best regards
C.
