Winston Churchill was impatient for a victory. Bernard Montgomery successfully persuaded the prime minister to give him ten weeks to prepare for one.
Meanwhile, in Gibraltar, preparations were underway for an Allied invasion of French North Africa, while US consul Robert Murphy worked in secret to persuade the French military to defect to the Allied side.
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Opening War Theme
Second Suite for Military Band
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Closing War Theme
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Logistics has come up quite a few times on these episodes, and I think it would be interesting to have a look at logistics overall during the century. The cold chain is developing, I assume that pallets and forklifts are about to come in, and I’ve heard that the American war in Vietnam had a huge impact on the development of shipping containers. Surely the war must have had some impact? I realise that I have little understanding of how it works at this time. Is it all crates?