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* DesignatedPointMan: Lieutenant John Foley, after attending a briefing concerning the British break-out offensive from the Normandy beach-head, and guided by TheBrigadier who is patiently waiting for the penny to drop, realises after a process of logical deduction that his armoured regiment will be at the very point of the entire British Second Army. And at the very point of that armoured spearhead will be a three-tank troop. Whose Troop Commander will be out in front, as custom and practice dictate. Lieutenant Foley realises, with a sinking sense of inevitability, that he is going to be Designated Point Man for an entire ''army''. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well for Foley]]
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* EpicTankOnTankAction: Foley was caught up on the fringes of Michael Wittmann's epic assault on the whole British army. Shortly after arriving in Normandy, on a day when he admits the British army was caught with its pants down, he had a run-in with a lone Tiger in a French village. [[CurbStompBattle It did not end happily]].
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* EpicTankOnTankAction: Foley was caught up on the fringes of Michael Wittmann's epic assault on the whole British army. Shortly after arriving in Normandy, on a day when he admits the British army was caught with its pants down, he had a run-in with a lone Tiger in a French village. [[CurbStompBattle It did not end happily]]. Foley relates several relates episodes describing the different combat uses of tanks; his fighting war began badly when his was one of the British tanks that encountered Wittman's Tigers in France. Foley describes being in the vanguard of the armoured offensive that Wittman disrupted and blunted, and of the tension and action of his undergunned British tank trying to stalk a Tiger to get a telling hit on it, only for the inevitable to happen and his own Churchill becoming a blazing dead wreck. [[note]]All but one of his crew survived this[[/note]].
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* TankOnTankAction: Foley relates several relates episodes describing the different combat uses of tanks; his fighting war began badly when his was one of the British tanks that encountered Wittman's Tigers in France. Foley describes being in the vanguard of the armoured offensive that Wittman disrupted and blunted, and of the tension and action of his undergunned British tank trying to stalk a Tiger to get a telling hit on it, only for the inevitable to happen and his own Churchill becoming a blazing dead wreck. [[note]]All but one of his crew survived this[[/note]].
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* StormingTheBeaches: Foley relates that his armoured regiment stormed the Normandy beaches a day late, on June 7th, and felt both relieved and a little bit guilty that the immediate fighting was over and they hadn't even got their feet damp.
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* ChessMotifs: The author relates a complex movement order that saw his regiment of heavy tanks effectively switch positions with a regiment of medium tanks. The two tank columns therefore passed each other on the same road travelling in opposite directions. The exchange between their respective commanding officers was "Just castling!"
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Dewicking per TRS
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* ShootEverythingThatMoves: the engagement in Holland where Foley had to lead his three tanks down a forest road by night, knowing the woods to either side were full of Germans with [[CoolGuns/RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers Panzerfausts]]. He detailed his machine-gunners to continually fire into the forest regardless of whether they saw anything or not, and his drivers to go flat out. None of his tanks were hit and in the morning there were quite a lot of dead Germans with anti-tank rockets they had not had a chance to fire.
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* ShootEverythingThatMoves: the engagement in Holland where Foley had to lead his three tanks down a forest road by night, knowing the woods to either side were full of Germans with [[CoolGuns/RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers Panzerfausts]].Panzerfausts. He detailed his machine-gunners to continually fire into the forest regardless of whether they saw anything or not, and his drivers to go flat out. None of his tanks were hit and in the morning there were quite a lot of dead Germans with anti-tank rockets they had not had a chance to fire.
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* WellTrainedButInexperienced: The newly-minted Liutenant John Foley first realises that a full year of intensive training at Sandhurst sums up to knowing which set of cutlery to use for each course, and a schooling in the protocols and politenesses of a pre-war officers' mess. Within a day he's binned his course notes from officer school and learns how it's really done in wartime, from the bottom up. After escaping from a brewed-up tank during actual combat, he discovers that being a marksman on the pistol ranges means nothing when he is trying to shoot at real-life German soldiers carrying machine-guns. He misses with every shot from close range.[[note]] fortunately they panic and run away[[/note]].
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* WellTrainedButInexperienced: The newly-minted Liutenant John Foley first realises comes to realize that a full year of intensive training at Sandhurst sums up amounts to knowing which set of cutlery to use for each course, and a schooling an education in the protocols and politenesses of a pre-war officers' mess. Within a day he's binned his course notes from officer school and learns how it's really done in wartime, from the bottom up. After escaping from a brewed-up tank during actual combat, he discovers that being a marksman on the pistol ranges means nothing when he is trying to shoot at real-life German soldiers carrying machine-guns. He misses with every shot from close range.[[note]] fortunately they panic and run away[[/note]].
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* AmusinglyAwfulAim: John Foley and his tank crew have escaped death in a blazing tank only to find themselves cornered by a British retreat and a corresponding German advance. Foley, a junior officer who has won pistol shooting competitions, runs into a German infantry section trying to get a machine gun into position. He tries to get them with his sidearm from possibly ten yards away... and misses. Fortunately, the Germans are scared enough by being shot at to drop the MG and run away. Foley then reflects that there's a world of difference between firing at paper targets on the range, and doing it for real. Mortifyingly, his crew then nickname him "Deadshot Dick" and reassure him not to worry as he is not the one in charge of shooting the tank's gun.
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Epsom, or maybe Goodwood, or was it Ascot?
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* TankOnTankAction: Foley relates several relates episodes describing the different combat uses of tanks; his fighting war began badly when his was one of the British tanks that encountered Wittman's Tigers in France. Foley describes being in the vanguard of the armoured offensive that Wittman disrupted and blunted, and of the tension and action of his undergunned British tank trying to stalk a Tiger to get a telling hit on it, only for the inevitable to happen and his own Churchill becoming a blazing dead wreck. [[note]]All but one of his crew survived this[[/note]].
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* WellTrainedButInexperienced: The newly-minted Liutenant John Foley first realises that a full year of intensive training at Sandhurst sums up to knowing which set of cutlery to use for each course, and a schooling in the protocols and politenesses of a pre-war officers' mess. Within a day he's binned his course notes from officer school and learns how it's really done in wartime, from the bottom up. After escaping from a brewed-up tank during actual combat, he discovers that being a marksman on the pistol ranges means nothing when he is trying to shoot at real-life German soldiers carrying machine-guns. He misses with every shot from close range.[[note]] fortunately they panic and run away[[/note]].
* WorksSetInWorldWar2: it covers the period immediately after D-Day to May 1945 in Europe.
* WorksSetInWorldWar2: it covers the period immediately after D-Day to May 1945 in Europe.
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* WellTrainedButInexperienced: The newly-minted Liutenant John Foley first realises that a full year of intensive training at Sandhurst sums up to knowing which set of cutlery to use for each course, and a schooling in the protocols and politenesses of a pre-war officers' mess. Within a day he's binned his course notes from officer school and learns how it's really done in wartime, from the bottom up. After escaping from a brewed-up tank during actual combat, he discovers that being a marksman on the pistol ranges means nothing when he is trying to shoot at real-life German soldiers carrying machine-guns. He misses with every shot from close range.[[note]] fortunately they panic and run away[[/note]].
* WorksSetInWorldWar2: it covers the period immediately after D-Day to May 1945 in Europe.away[[/note]].
* WorksSetInWorldWar2: it covers the period immediately after D-Day to May 1945 in Europe.
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* WellTrainedButInexperienced: The newly-minted Liutenant John Foley first realises that a full year of intensive training at Sandhurst sums up to knowing which set of cutlery to use for each course, and a schooling in the protocols and politenesses of a pre-war officers' mess. Within a day he's binned his course notes from officer school and learns how it's really done in wartime, from the bottom up. After escaping from a brewed-up tank during actual combat, he discovers that being a marksman on the pistol ranges means nothing when he is trying to shoot at real-life German soldiers carrying machine-guns. He misses with every shot from close range.[[note]] fortunately they panic and run away[[/note]].
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* MeaningfulName: The Mailed Fist was the divisional insignia and informal name of one of Britain's strongest tank armies in WW2. Its badge, worn with pride by all vehicles, was a silver clenched armoured fist on a black background.
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* MeaningfulName: The Mailed Fist was the divisional insignia and informal name of one of Britain's strongest tank armies in WW2.[=WW2=]. Its badge, worn with pride by all vehicles, was a silver clenched armoured fist on a black background.
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* MeaningfulName: The Mailed Fist was the divisional insignia and informal name of one of Britain's strongest tank armies in WW2. Its badge, worn with pride by all vehicles, was a silver clenched armoured fist on a black background.
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* MultiTrackDrifting: Britain's Churchill tank certainly wasn't built for speed. But its engine power and gearing meant it could climb steeper slopes than practically every other tank out. One hilltop defensive position in Tunisia, thought impassible for tanks by its German defenders and therefore lightly guarded by mines or anti-tank guns, was over-run by Churchills climbing a slope the Germans only thought to lightly defend. Foley records that his Churchills crossed wide anti-tank ditches in the Siegfried Line simply by driving into them. and then climbing out of them as if it were a minor inconvenience - much to the consternation of the German defenders. Foley also records a case where a Churchill skidded off a road in the Ardennes in winter ice and smow, plunging into a ravine. It landed right side up and was able to climb out again, ascending the precipitous slope with little damage to tank or crew.
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* ShootEverythingThatMoves: the engagement in Holland where Foley had to lead his three tanks down a forest road by night, knowing the woods to either side were full of Germans with panzerfausts. He detailed his machine-gunners to continually fire into the forest regardless of whether they saw anything or not, and his drivers to go flat out. None of his tanks were hit and in the morning there were quite a lot of dead Germans with anti-tank rockets they had not had a chance to fire.
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* ShootEverythingThatMoves: the engagement in Holland where Foley had to lead his three tanks down a forest road by night, knowing the woods to either side were full of Germans with panzerfausts.[[CoolGuns/RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers Panzerfausts]]. He detailed his machine-gunners to continually fire into the forest regardless of whether they saw anything or not, and his drivers to go flat out. None of his tanks were hit and in the morning there were quite a lot of dead Germans with anti-tank rockets they had not had a chance to fire.
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* EpicTankOnTankAction: Foley was caught up on the fringes of Michael Wittmann's epic assault on the whole British army. Shortly after arriving in Normandy, on a day when he admits the British army was caught weith its pants down, he had a run-in with a lone Tiger in a French village. [[CurbStompBattle It did not end happily]].
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* EpicTankOnTankAction: Foley was caught up on the fringes of Michael Wittmann's epic assault on the whole British army. Shortly after arriving in Normandy, on a day when he admits the British army was caught weith with its pants down, he had a run-in with a lone Tiger in a French village. [[CurbStompBattle It did not end happily]].
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* ShootEverythingThatMoves: the night engagement in Holland where Foley had to lead his three tanks down a forest road by night, knowing the woods to either side were full of Germans with panzerfausts. He detailed his machine-gunners to continually fire into the forest and his drivers to go flat out. none of his tanks were hit and in the morning there were quite a lot of dead Geremans with anti-tank rockets they had not had a chance to fire.
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* ShootEverythingThatMoves: the night engagement in Holland where Foley had to lead his three tanks down a forest road by night, knowing the woods to either side were full of Germans with panzerfausts. He detailed his machine-gunners to continually fire into the forest regardless of whether they saw anything or not, and his drivers to go flat out. none None of his tanks were hit and in the morning there were quite a lot of dead Geremans Germans with anti-tank rockets they had not had a chance to fire.
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* ShootEverythingThatMoves: the night engagement in Holland where Foley had to lead his three tanks down a forest road by night, knowing the woods to either side were full of Germans with panzerfausts. He detailed his machine-gunners to continually fire into the forest and his drivers to go flat out. none of his tanks were hit and in the morning there were quite a lot of dead Geremans with anti-tank rockets they had not had a chance to fire.
