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The Fighting Wessex Wyverns - From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division (Paperback)
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The Fighting Wessex Wyverns - From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division (Paperback)
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Commanded by the controversial Major-General Ivo Thomas, the 43rd
(Wessex) Division was branded the Fighting Yellow Devils' out of
respect by its Wehrmacht and Waffen SS opponents. The 43rd's
distinctive divisional badge of a golden Wyvern - half-serpent
half-dragon - was to be seen in all the ferocious battles in
Normandy, the Low Countries and Germany between June 1944 and May
1945. They suffered 12,500 casualties including 3,000 killed in
action. The 43rd had its roots firmly in the West of England,
drawing its infantry battalions from the county regiments of
Cornwall, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Worcester,
with occasional reinforcements during the Normandy campaign by
'foreign' regiments from Berkshire, Essex and other counties. This
book tells the story of the division's campaign in Northwest
Europe, from Normandy to Bremerhaven, in the words of the soldiers
who actually fought with it: privates, sergeants and young company
commanders, all have their individual tales to tell. Here are
first-hand accounts of the landings on the shores of Normandy; the
battles for the River Odon, Hill 112, Maltot and Mont Pincon; the
break-out to the River Seine and the forcing of the vital
bridgehead at Vernon; the only infantry division to make a
single-handed attempt to relieve Arnhem - a gallant and costly
failure; the clearance of the Roer triangle (Operation Blackcock)
and the Reichswald (Operation Veritable); the crossing of the River
Rhine and the advance northwards to take the port of Bremen; and
the final triumphant advance to the Cuxhaven peninsula northwest of
Hamburg.
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