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The Nazi Scheme to Bombard New York City With Rockets and Other Unfinished Military Plans

Khalid Elhassan January 16, 2020 32 min

South Vietnam - United States — American troops in South Vietnam. USA Today

25. Cancelling Operation Hush

Australians making their way over the muddy terrain during the Third Battle of Ypres. Wikimedia

Unfortunately for the British planners of Operation Hush, the Germans grew suspicious and launched a spoiling attack in July, 1917, that pushed the British back. When the main British attack finally came, in the Third Battle of Ypres in October of that year, it had to make an even greater advance than the planners of Operation Hush had envisioned.

First, the British had to recapture the ground taken by the Germans in July. Then, they had to continue on until they got close enough to the beaches where Operation Hush’s amphibious force were supposed to land. The British failed to advance far enough to come within striking distance of a linkup with an amphibious force landed behind German lines, so Operation Hush was cancelled.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.