To browse Academia. Unpublished notes on armed forces' orders of battle, maintained during the s - New Zealand, Australia, France, Iraq. An, almost, exhaustive research on the Suez Campaign participants forces and plans. The standard account of Worthington Force is well known-on 9 August during Operation Totalize a battlegroup formed by the tanks of the British Columbia Regiment and the infantry of the Algonquin Regiment was ordered to capture Point Unbeknownst to anyone, including the men of Worthington Force, the battlegroup lost its way in the dark and found itself on a different piece of high ground, near Point , some six kilometres northeast of their objective.
Cut off from any support, Worthington Force was destroyed by concerted German attacks over the course of the day. Based on new archival research and an examination of contemporary aerial photographs, this article will show how the battlegroup lost its way as well as reveal that the battlegroup was not as out of touch as previous accounts have indicated.
This essay discusses the impact and role of the Irish regiments in the Second World War and, in particular, the immense commitment of volunteers from Eire, against their Government's wishes, to join the British Army in the war against Hitler's Germany. This dissertation is a study of the Canadian Army's ability to reconstitute battalion sized combat arms regiments armour, infantry and artillery during the last year of the Second World War in North West Europe.
The central thesis argues that in combination with tactical and strategic strengths, the Canadian Army Overseas was effective at rebuilding units that had suffered severe personnel and equipment losses in combat. This ability to sustain the strength of its combat units was vitally important in maintaining their offensive capability. Units that had suffered catastrophic losses were rebuilt and reequipped in a rapid manner that allowed them to be capable of any kind of operation.
Without replacement resources at the ready, offensive capability within the Canadian Army would be inhibited, regardless of effective tactics or strategies. In comparison to the Germans, the Canadian Army was a phoenix, continually strengthening its operational units and maintaining their combat capability.
