The Third World War: August 1985

Примечания

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It is probably unnecessary to say that at no time was there any planning in NATO for an invasion of the GDR. The suggestion had some propaganda value in the USSR, and among Soviet sympathizers abroad.

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I Belgian, I German and I Netherlands Corps and I and II British. The last, formed largely from reserve units during the previous year, had been deployed for the first time in Germany a month earlier.

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It has been possible to put together the account here given of the personal experience of the G3 Duty Officer, who was one of the earlier fatal casualties of the fighting in Germany, on the basis of evidence of others present in the Ops room at the time, and the preservation of the officer’s letter to his wife. This story is told by one of the present writers, who was a close friend.

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II Br Corps was moved to Germany in July 1985., 118

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Armoured infantry, 3,500 strong, together with a regiment of sixty tanks, an artillery regiment of 155 mm SP howitzers, anti-tank and anti-air missiles, support troops and a tactical helicopter squadron.

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Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty lays down that in the event of armed attack on any signatory each member will assist the country so attacked by taking ‘such action as it deems necessary including the use of armed force’.

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Extract from The Veld Aflame: South Africa’s Fight for Survival by a group of participants, ed. Major-General K. E. Rymer, Cassell, London 1986.