James Holland

And what they think is when, what will happen is the Germans won't think of going, you know, they won't do a pincer movement because you can't possibly take motorized forces through the Ardennes. That just is not possible, which is the hinge area between the end of the Maginot, the northern part of the Maginot line, which runs down the western, sorry, the eastern border of France.

And what they think is when, what will happen is the Germans won't think of going, you know, they won't do a pincer movement because you can't possibly take motorized forces through the Ardennes.

That's just, it's not possible, which is the hinge area between the end of the Maginot, the northern part of the Maginot line, which runs down the western, sorry, the eastern border of France.

And the northern bit.

And the northern bit. And so what we'll do with that hinge around the town of Sedan, we'll move into Belgium, we'll meet the Germans before they get anywhere near France, we'll hold them. And while we're holding them, we will bring up our reserves and then we'll counterattack and crush them. That's the idea behind it. But the problem is, is they don't have a means of moving fast.

And the northern bit. And so what we'll do with that hinge around the town of Sedan, we'll move into Belgium, we'll meet the Germans before they get anywhere near France, we'll hold them. And while we're holding them, we will bring up our reserves and then we'll counterattack and crush them. That's the idea behind it. But the problem is, is they don't have a means of moving fast.

And the northern bit. And so what we'll do with that hinge around the town of Sedan, we'll move into Belgium, we'll meet the Germans before they get anywhere near France, we'll hold them. And while we're holding them, we will bring up our reserves and then we'll counterattack and crush them. That's the idea behind it. But the problem is, is they don't have a means of moving fast.

And so what we'll do with that hinge around the town of Sedan, we'll move into Belgium, we'll meet the Germans before they get anywhere near France, we'll hold them.

And while we're holding them, we will bring up our reserves and then we'll counterattack and crush them.

That's the idea behind it.

But the problem is, is they don't have a means of moving fast.

And their communication systems are dreadful, absolutely dreadful. They're dependent on conventional telephone lines, which, you know,

And their communication systems are dreadful, absolutely dreadful. They're dependent on conventional telephone lines, which, you know,

And their communication systems are dreadful, absolutely dreadful. They're dependent on conventional telephone lines, which, you know,

And their communication systems are dreadful, absolutely dreadful.

They're dependent on conventional telephone lines, which, you know,

dive bombers and whatever are just kind of absolutely wrecking suddenly the streets are clogged with refugees and people can't move so they're then you know telephone lines are down there's no radios so you're then dependent on sending dispatch riders on little motorbikes you know general uh morris gamelan sends out a dispatch rider at six o'clock in the morning um by 12 o'clock he hasn't come back so you then send another one

dive bombers and whatever are just kind of absolutely wrecking suddenly the streets are clogged with refugees and people can't move so they're then you know telephone lines are down there's no radios so you're then dependent on sending dispatch riders on little motorbikes you know general uh morris gamelan sends out a dispatch rider at six o'clock in the morning um by 12 o'clock he hasn't come back so you then send another one

dive bombers and whatever are just kind of absolutely wrecking suddenly the streets are clogged with refugees and people can't move so they're then you know telephone lines are down there's no radios so you're then dependent on sending dispatch riders on little motorbikes you know general uh morris gamelan sends out a dispatch rider at six o'clock in the morning um by 12 o'clock he hasn't come back so you then send another one

dive bombers and whatever are just kind of absolutely wrecking suddenly the streets are clogged with refugees and people can't move so they're then you know telephone lines are down there's no radios so you're then dependent on sending dispatch riders on little motorbikes you know general uh morris gamelan sends out a dispatch rider at six o'clock in the morning um by 12 o'clock he hasn't come back so you then send another one