|
Showing 1 - 1 of
1 matches in All Departments
When studying the planning behind the Combined Operations
cross-Channel raids that harassed the Germans along the coast of
Occupied France during the Second World War, one name appears
repeatedly - that of Captain John �Jock' Hughes-Hallett.
Hughes-Hallett was Deputy Director of the Local Defence Division at
the Admiralty in 1940 and 1941, before becoming Naval Adviser at
Combined Operations Headquarters. Along with the head of Combined
Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Hughes-Hallett orchestrated the
Commando raids from Norway to Normandy - attacks which tied down
German troops far in excess of the numbers employed on the raids.
Hughes-Hallett became Commodore commanding the Channel Assault
Force (known as �J' Force) and Naval Chief of Staff (X) from 1942
to 1943\. He is perhaps best known for being the Naval Commander of
the Dieppe Raid of August 1942, and attack which, despite its
disastrous outcome, led to one of the most important decisions
regarding the D-Day landings of June 1944\. At a meeting following
the Dieppe raid, Hughes-Hallett declared that if a port could not
be captured, then one should be taken across the Channel. Although
this was met with derision at the time, the concept of Mulberry
Harbours began to take shape when Hughes-Hallett moved to be Naval
Chief of Staff to the Operation Overlord planners. It was in the
planning for D-Day that the then Commodore Hughes-Hallett's
experience came to the fore. The ultimate success of that
enormously complex operation owed much to his many years in
Combined Operations. Hughes-Hallett retired from the Royal Navy
with the rank of Vice Admiral, taking up a new career as Member of
Parliament for Croydon East and then Croydon North East. It is
remarkable that the Hughes-Hallett memoirs have not been published
until now for, without doubt, they constitute one of the most
important wartime autobiographies to presented to the world in
recent decades.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R66
Discovery Miles 660
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.