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...INVASION OF FRANCE AND GERMANY, 1944-1945 (360 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...been little aware of naval support during the Normandy invasion, but when Major General Leonard Gerow went ashore to set up V Corps headquarters, his first message to General Bradley was: "Thank God for the United States Navy!" That is also the message of Rear Admiral (ret.) Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S.N.R., in his massive naval chronicle of World War II. Of the 14 volumes he blocked out, only three remain to be written. Vol. XI, The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945, has the firm documentation and almost jaunty dash of its predecessors; it also shows that the many...
...Difference. The book is a sharp reminder of the awesomely detailed planning that went into operation Neptune-Overlord. Historian Morison's special interest is the naval support, from the ferrying job to naval gunfire, but he necessarily refights much of the battle for the beaches -and does it with freshness and sharp detail. What seems plain is that the Germans ensured Allied success by a series of blunders: they concluded that the weather was not right for an invasion when it came; they canceled a routine E-boat patrol that might have discovered the coming attack; and they swallowed...
Most readers will be surprised to discover just how great was the U.S. Navy's contribution to success during the early days of the invasion. On Morison's showing, it seems likely that naval gunfire made all the difference at some points. There was even one instance of German soldiers waving the white flag to a sharpshooting destroyer 1,300 yards out in the Channel...
...lectures at Oxford University, Harvard Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, the U.S. Navy's official chronicler of World War II, took a fall out of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime strategy. The trouble: Churchill was "peripheral-minded" and wanted to send raiding parties at Europe's defensive shores "like jackals worrying a lion." Snorted Morison: "From most of [Churchill's] favorite targets you could not go anywhere!" Of the successful Normandy invasion in 1944: "But for the insistent,, unremitting, often rude and tactless pressure by Roosevelt, Marshall, Eisenhower and others to cross the Channel in force...