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When did (and who in) the French command come up with the idea that the . . . Martin Marix Evans (Invasion!: Operation Sea Lion, 1940, 2004, p 37): The idea that the Ardenne terrain would not permit the passage of armoured forces has been used as an excuse for the lack of foresight of General Maurice Gamelin and his colleagues in the French High Command That they were taken by surprise by the German attack is certain, but that they believed the Ardennes to be
world war two - How did Nazi Germany produce such an impressive . . . Spots ahead of him were occupied by the likes of Generals Gamelin and Weygand, born in the 1860s and 1870s, the right age for World War I (but not II) There is a fear that today's hard economic times is creating an edgy, hungry, and cunning new "Lost" generation of young adults born in the 1980s and 1990s
Why didnt France and the UK invade Germany in September 1939? Gen Gamelin was not a timid general, but he believed that any attack required an artillery barrage, and made his offensive and defensive plans according The French army waited in the field while fixed artillery could be brought out from storage, shipped to the front, and assembled, and wanted for planes and tanks
Do any historians consider superior German airpower as the most . . . This was further exacerbated by the ill-timed replacement of Gamelin by Weygand It is likely that German air is over-strengthed in these games, somewhat, as a means of simulating this command failure by the Allies
Why did the Allies lose the Battle of France (1940)? The average French, and especially British, unit was better trained, better equipped, , than the average German unit It had far more motorized capability than any except the elite divisions on the other side But the Panzer and Panzer Grenadier (motorized) units were far superior in training, leadership, and doctrine to anything on the Allied side in 1940
How did Charles de Gaulle become the leading figure of French . . . Among the French military, names and birth years included Jean Darlan (1881), Henri Giraud 1879), Maurice Gamelin (1872), Maxime Weygand (1867), and the "grand old man," Phillippe Petain (1856) Only Jean Lattre de Tassigny (1889) was around de Gaulle's age