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Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (13 August 1897 – 7 August 1942), nicknamed "Strafer", was a senior British Army officer who fought during both the First and the Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general while serving with the British Eighth Army in the Western Desert and North ...
22 de sept. de 2014 · Teniente General William Gott. Fuente de la fotografía: digplanet.com Cuando se hallaban a una altitud de tan sólo 50 metros, dos aparatos Messerschmitt bf-109 pertenecientes a la Jagdgeschwader 27 que volaban por encima de ellos divisaron el Bristol y atacan.
24 de jul. de 2006 · Gott’s replacement was none other than General Montgomery – and as it happened, working alongside General Alexander, Monty did achieve the emphatic battlefield victory Britain so craved. Yet in the aftermath of Gott’s death, an immediate news clampdown was put in place, and in doing so, the facts were never widely revealed. ‘I kept getting fed up hearing I was dead from various ...
William Henry Ewart Gott, apodado "Strafer", fue un oficial del Ejército Británico que luchó en la Primera y en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Alcanzó el rango de teniente general mientras servía en el 8.º Ejército Británico durante la Campaña del Norte de África al mando de la 7.ª División Blindada.
12 de sept. de 2022 · The Prime Minister’s first choice to lead the Eighth Army was Lieutenant General William Gott, but he was killed before he could take up the post, when the transport plane carrying him was ambushed by German fighters.
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Lieutenant General William 'Strafer' Gott, Commander XIII Corps (left) in conversation with one of Koenig's French commanders. Later in 1942 after General Auchinleck had stopped Rommel's eastwards progression in the first battle of El Alamein, Gott was given command of Eighth Army but was killed in an air crash before taking up the post.
21 de jul. de 2022 · Lieutenant-General William Gott, unable to exit the transport, perished amid the difficult landing and subsequent strafing by Luftwaffe fighters. He was, together with Lieutenant-Generals Vyvyan Pope and Herbert Lumsden, among the highest-ranking British casualties of World War Two.
