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| Banned ![]() | Post; what was the largest british land battle of ww2does anyone know what the largest british land battle of the war was. i know that the battle of the bulge the usa's largest land battle but i would like to know about the largest mainly british land was. help would be appreciated |
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Now that is a question and half, We had enormous forces in North Africa, Europe, and South East Asia and we could not have afford to lose on any of these fronts.
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| Optio | Probably the battle of Al-alamein in EGYPT, led by "Montgomery" and total troops envolved in this operation were 220,000 with 1000 Tanks vs 500 Tanks of Afrika Corps. |
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | We had more than that when we put our Armies into Europe. |
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| Forum Digger | Largest, depending on what. Numbers of soldiers/tanks/shells fired/days fought/deaths? It's hard to say. But, It'd be the battle of Monte Casino in my opinion. 3 months to take one bloody mountain.
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Monte Casino....was an international Battle, with Indians, Gurkha's, Poles, Chechz,Kiwis, Canadians and Americans all taking part I forgot also top add the Free French that did some good work on this battle. |
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Charge 7 mentioned Normandy. when you think that we lost 27,000 killed just taking Caen it will give you some idea of the size of this battle. There where nine German divisions in Normandy and 6 of them where around Cane, and they developed defence in depth all around this area so as you over ran one line you then ran in to the next one very shortly and it worked out to be a war of attrition. I should also menetion that the Canadians fought hard all round this area and a number were tied up and then shot by the Germans, and it was not just the odd one whole groups of them were found killed this way. |
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Also, 68,000 out of 335,000 is of course a greater than 20% casualty count. Less, though than I had thought. One last thing, 335,000 seems like a rather large force of Brits. Was there any larger then? | ||||
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