From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10286 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, December 10 2022 Volume 14 : Number 10286 Today's Subjects: ----------------- We have been trying to reach you - Please respond! ["Order Confirmation" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 10:25:40 +0100 From: "Order Confirmation" Subject: We have been trying to reach you - Please respond! We have been trying to reach you - Please respond! http://revisils.shop/-cIpHyLGD2z2W3prEV-B4L33TD_r4pTLxWzphyWRHVZFrlPkLg http://revisils.shop/8kBrtavMo458FlOWHRrO1oBa2sUfriZ1PlRqzH_wPvtuU3ZmQw n January 1944, a planning staff known as Force 163 was formed in Palermo under the US Seventh Army's Chief Engineer, Brigadier General Garrison H. Davidson. Force 163 moved to Algiers, near Wilson's Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ), where it began working on Anvil. Force 163 rejected the first proposed landing site near HyC(res, as it was dominated by German guns on the Cap Benat and Giens Peninsulas and the HyC(res Islands, as well as within range of the heavy guns protecting the Toulon naval base. The islands also obstructed the approaches to the beaches and the restricted areas where the minesweepers and bombardment ships had to operate. The planners therefore looked further afield, to a series of beaches around Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Saint-Tropez and Saint-RaphaC+l. These beaches were far from perfect, being separated by cliffs and rock outcrops, backed by dominating high ground, and possessing only restricted entries and exits. Senior officers aboard USS Catoctin (AGC-5), operation flagship, en route to the invasion area on 14 August 1944. Left to right: Brigadier General Gordon P. Saville, Air Commander; Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, Army Commander; Vice Admiral Kent Hewitt, Naval Commander; James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; Rear Admiral AndrC) Lemonnier, Chief of Staff of the French Navy. Force 163's planning effort was hampered by the on-again, off-again nature of Anvil. There was uncertainty about the target date, and whether it would be a one-, two- or three-division operation. The departure of Lieutenant General George S. Patton for the United Kingdom along with key members of the staff left numerous unfilled positions at Seventh Army headquarters. This was remedied in March 1944 with the arrival of Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, who brought in members of the headquarters his former command ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10286 ***********************************************