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Old 29th July 2007, 01:16
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Re: Placing the Fairey Battle.

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Originally Posted by tcolvin View Post
The Army had the responsibility for taking Caen on D-Day, but it was denied the all-arms means enjoyed by the Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army.
I know the plan fell through on the day but are you saying that gunfire from capital ships (which were designed to deliver plunging fire on to heavily armoured moving structures - viz. other capital ships - were they not?) wouldn't have been a suitable means of destroying a heavily armoured static structure like a bunker complex? Sounds pretty much ideal to me.
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