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I think Michael is referring to the battle of May-sur-Orne (25/07/44) in the Normandy campaign. The RHR took very heavy casualties trying to take an enemy held position with a frontal assault up a slope.
The CBC "documentary" The Valour and The Horror by the infamous McKenna brothers a few years back covered the battle and with their particular anti military slant made it worse out than it probably was. Not to say the casualties weren‘t high though.
Ghost recce, know both that parade square and monument well.
Art, funny I did put them in my original post, but left them out when I was checking facts from the book for the second post. Sorry about that, now corrected.
The CBC "documentary" The Valour and The Horror by the infamous McKenna brothers a few years back covered the battle and with their particular anti military slant made it worse out than it probably was. Not to say the casualties weren‘t high though.
Ghost recce, know both that parade square and monument well.
Art, funny I did put them in my original post, but left them out when I was checking facts from the book for the second post. Sorry about that, now corrected.