FIELD NOTES / GALLUS ARCHIVE
Campaign history built to be read: political context, battlefield ground, commanders, first-hand service perspective and remembrance — connected rather than dumped into one feed.
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Every article belongs to a wider campaign space. Use the campaign links above for a guided reading order, or browse the archive below by publication date.
SECOND WORLD WAR
A source-led biography of Major General Maxwell Taylor focused on command of the 101st Airborne Division on D-Day, the Utah Beach exits, scattered Normandy drop and subsequent fight toward Carentan.
FIRST WORLD WAR
A gold-standard field guide to the Royal Flying Corps from its 1912 formation to the RAF in 1918: organisation, reconnaissance, aerial photography, artillery observation, contact patrols, wireless, air superiority, the Fokker Scourge,...
SECOND WORLD WAR
A source-led biography of Brigadier General James Gavin focused on his D-Day role as 82nd Airborne assistant division commander, the scattered Cotentin drop and fighting around La Fière and the Merderet.
SECOND WORLD WAR
A source-led biography of Major General Matthew Ridgway focused on his command of the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day, the late-changing Cotentin plan, scattered drop, Sainte-Mère-Église and Merderet mission.
SECOND WORLD WAR
A full field guide to the US airborne battle behind Utah Beach: 82nd and 101st Airborne objectives and order of battle, German opposition, Sainte-Mère-Église, La Fière and the Merderet crossings, Utah causeways,...
SECOND WORLD WAR
A source-led biography of Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway DSO, commander of 9th Parachute Battalion at Merville Battery: the scattered D-Day drop, the decision to attack with about 150 men, the assault and...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash, commander of the Australian Corps at Amiens, covering Hamel, detailed all-arms planning, the 8 August attack and the limits of the 'inventor of modern warfare' myth.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of General Sir Henry Rawlinson, commander of British Fourth Army at Amiens in 1918, tracing the evolution from the Somme to the coordinated all-arms system of the Hundred Days.
FIRST WORLD WAR
The gold-standard Battle of Amiens field guide: strategic context after the German Spring Offensives, public-domain battlefield map and axes, opening Allied and German orders of battle, Rawlinson, Monash, Currie and Marwitz biographies,...
SECOND WORLD WAR
A veteran-mortarman-led complete field guide to the Merville Battery assault on 6 June 1944: political and operational context, assault map, British and German order of battle, Terence Otway biography, the scattered 9...
SECOND WORLD WAR
A source-led biography of Lieutenant Den Brotheridge, commander of 25 Platoon during the Pegasus Bridge coup de main: his place in D Company’s glider assault, fatal wounding during the first minutes of...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of General Fritz von Below, commander of German Second Army when the Somme offensive opened in 1916, focusing on defence, command reorganisation and attrition.
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