By early morning the PVA attack had been checked Preventing_or_letting and 3 RAR had redeployed Placing to new positions in the paddy fields around the railway crossing north of Maenjung-dong .

General Sir Harold Alexander , Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in Italy , planned Arranging `` Diadem '' to coordinate roughly with the invasion of Normandy , so that German forces Military_operation would be tied Connect down in Italy , and could not be redeployed to France .

the area was viewed Perception_active as strategic to the croatian military effort by the hv general staff because it presented Presence an obstacle to the supply Supply of the rsk and it pinned down a portion of the rsk military , as well as some vrs forces Military_operation that would otherwise have been redeployed Arranging .