October 23rd, 2007, 01:06 AM
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Re: US on the left and Brits on the right
see post 8 above
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The source I found (after looking for many years), gave the reason that the US troops were billeted in the South and the Brits to the North. To have each army assault opposite beaches would have required them to cross each other in transit. It further postulated that the decision was probably made early in the American build-up phase by some non-descript middle-level British billeting officer when the US numbers were low and he unknowingly had a major part in Allied stategy because of it.
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