Lionel Wigram's drill tactics in war assumed that soldiers were 25% "gutful", 50% sheep, and 25% cowards.
Lionel Wigram's drill tactics in war assumed that soldiers were 25% "gutful", 50% sheep, and 25% cowards. The use of the reconstituted Territorial Army was vastly expanded one side's military in this war, but triggered the Salerno mutiny. Hugh Dowding resisted the Big Wing strategy during this war, in which a damaged cargo ship at Bari released mustard gas on civilians. The "88 millimeter" gun was first used by the losers of this war, in which (*) Operation Tidal Wave targeted the Ploesti oil fields. Operation Sea Lion was thwarted by radar during an aerial campaign in this war, whose battles included Bastogne and Kasserine Pass. For 10 points, name this war in which Bernard Montgomery led troops at El Alamein against Erwin Rommel's Axis forces.
Lionel Wigram's drill tactics in war assumed that soldiers were 25% "gutful", 50% sheep, and 25% cowards.
World War II [or equivalents]