One Last Steak Dinner

The British 51st Highland Division was being squeezed into a small pocket around the town of Dieppe by Erwin Rommel and his 7th Panzer Division. Rommel was doing his best to capture the division before it could escape across the …

1940-06-11

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The British 51st Highland Division was being squeezed into a small pocket around the town of Dieppe by Erwin Rommel and his 7th Panzer Division. Rommel was doing his best to capture the division before it could escape across the channel. The men of the 1st Black Watch were ordered to hold the middle of the perimeter against Rommel’s panzers. After preparing their positions, the Highlanders shot a cow to supplement their rations. With full bellies, their idyllic afternoon in Normandy was forgotten as they heard the sound of German tanks approaching.

St. Pierre-le-viger, France

Fall Rot (Case Red) was the plan for a German military operation after the success of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the Battle of France, an invasion of the Benelux countries and northern France. The Allied armies had been defeated and pushed back in the north to the Channel coast, which culminated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The operation to complete the conquest of France by the German Army began on 5 June 1940.[1] Fall Rot began with a preliminary attack over the river Somme on the Channel Coast to the Seine, beginning on 5 June and the main offensive by Army Group A on 9 June further east over the river Aisne.

Wikipedia: Fall Rot

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