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British Ops Slapstick and Baytown
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 6:23 pm
by Lobster
Two operations executed by the British in Southern Italy. Anyone know where there's any information about them?
RE: British Ops Slapstick and Baytown
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 6:58 am
by golden delicious
All I know from this is from Wikipedia. My understanding is that it was mainly an engineering operation, to be honest, whereby a small German kampfgruppe set about demolishing all the roads and the British then followed up behind fixing them. I don't think there was a great deal of fighting, except for right by Reggia where Folgore (EDIT: Nembo) fought a local delaying action.
RE: British Ops Slapstick and Baytown
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:29 am
by cathar1244
A discussion of 'Baytown' is in this work, starting at page 180.
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/theme ... 2-2-en.pdf
'Slapstick' is briefly discussed on pp 94-95 in:
https://history.army.mil/html/books/006 ... _6-3-1.pdf
Cheers
RE: British Ops Slapstick and Baytown
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:21 pm
by Lobster
Yeah not much going on with either.