Triumph And Tragedy (The Second World War) - Plot & Excerpts
from the west. If there were any way of capturing Bordeaux within the present fighting season by a thrust from the Gulf of Lions, and thus opening Bordeaux and other smaller ports near it to the advance across the ocean of the main United States Army, this would clearly take priority over any purely Mediterranean enterprise which could be launched. Let us therefore examine in this setting the variants of “Anvil” which have for so many months held our thoughts. Two projects have been put forward, to wit, a landing of, say, ten divisions with a three-division lift and a seven-division follow-up at Cette or at Marseilles. Cette has the great advantage of being only 225 miles from Bordeaux and is without any serious mountain obstructions. It is, I understand, admitted by all sides that there is no possibility of any landing on August 1 and the earliest possibility is August 15, and that even this is doubtful. If we attack Cette between August 15 and 30 we are told it would be conceivable to land up to ten divisions by the end of September or the middle of October.
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