25 April 1915: The Landings at "Anzac Cove" & Cape Helles—amphibious assaults by the Australian & New Zealand Army Corps (A.N.Z.A.C.) & British & French forces aimed at the Ottoman forts that commanded the Dardanelles; one of the most bungled operations of the whole war, marked by lethargic command & chaotic communications, which might have succeeded anyway were it not for the exceptional Turkish commander, Mustafa Kemal, later immortalized as Atatürk.
Lest we forget.
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