Normandy Campaign

John Buckley, British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944 (London Frank Cass, 2004) French, Raising ChurehilVs Army, pp. 100-5 Postan, Hay and Scott, Design and Development, pp. 329-30, 341. 

British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944, London Frank Cass, 2004. 

Despite the complaints heard throughout the Normandy Campaign about the lack of trained mortar battalion replacements, there was no over-all shortage of CWS officers in the European theater. Colonel St. John, Chemical Adviser, G-3, SHAEF, reported in June 1944 that so many CWS officers were in the theater that they were "sitting in each other s laps and standing on each other s feet. ... 

As the initial weeks of the campaign wore on and units moved inland, some flame thrower targets did appear. Cities and towns presented obstacles which occasionally called for flame thrower action, although the ist and 2d Infantry Divisions reported that the weapon was not particularly useful in ordinary street fighting. The V Corps stated that the limited range of the portable flame thrower restricted its usefulness in fighting in the hedgerows, that ubiquitous feature of the Normandy terrain. ... 

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