Talk:British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign

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"In September, the control of these sub areas passed to the At the start of October the "? Gog the Mild (talk) 20:40, 1 June 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ Corrected. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  23:44, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Hanging out the washing
Kudos to Hawkeye7 for the prodigious logistical effort of assembling this article. But I must query the title as I've not heard this called the Siegfried Line campaign before and so was not sure initially what the article was about. The words "Siegfried Line" only seem to appear in the title and its echoes so I'm not convinced it's common. I suppose it's mostly a sequel to British logistics in the Normandy campaign and so follows the same pattern.

I do like articles and books about logistics and so started Logistics in World War I back in 2014, when the centenary started. I don't have Hawkeye's stamina for such a hard slog though and so that's still quite undeveloped. It will not be over by Christmas...

Andrew🐉(talk) 13:40, 13 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, its a sequel to British logistics in the Normandy campaign and follows the same pattern. The "Siegfried Line campaign" is not an official designation, but nor is it a Wikipedia one. When the American official historians were preparing their series of works back in 1945, the American official designation for the campaign that came after the breakout and pursuit was "Rhineland", but the historians felt that it covered far too many battles, and divided it in two: the Siegfried Line campaign (the actions of the US First and Ninth Armies in the north) and the Lorraine campaign (the actions of the US Third and Seventh Armies in the south). Each has its own volume in the United States Army in World War II (Green Books) series. For our purposes, we already had both under the umbrella of the Siegfried Line campaignbox, along with the British and Canadian actions. The British officially divided the campaign into four phases: the advance from Brussels to the Nederrijn (Operation Market Garden), the Channel Ports, the Opening of Antwerp (Battle of the Scheldt) and the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge). This article therefore covers the logistics of the 21st Army Group in the period from September 1944 to January 1945; the earlier period from June to September 1944 has been covered in British logistics in the Normandy campaign, and that leaves the campaigns of 1945 for a future article. Like ourselves, the Green Book editors found it more convenient to pick up where the Battle of the Bulge ended in January, and continue to the end in a volume they called "The Last Offensive". We call that the Western Allied invasion of Germany; the official US names are "Rhineland", which covers the fighting up until the crossing of the Rhine on 22 March; and "Central Europe", which covers the final weeks of the war. So the third article in the trilogy will be called British Logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:25, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

CE
Rv several dupe wl, excellent article. Keith-264 (talk) 15:25, 2 December 2021 (UTC)