
EL ALAMEIN WEEK - Day 6
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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The Indian Army
When you've got that level of overwhelming force, fundamentally you haven't really got an issue. But all your advantages are completely stifled by the minefields. So once you get out of that, sheer weight of numbers will ensure that you can't possibly lose. He suggests a better option might have been to have 150 guns on the rest of the line and say 700 or 750 over five mile stretch firing in concentrations. And what we're going to do is use the army within its capabilities rather than completely shake up or reorganize. That's how Monty fights the eighth army but fights with eighth army at Alameda saying I'm going to fight with with us as we are.
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