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FIGHTING THEM ON THE BEACHES - THE D-DAY LANDINGS 6 JUNE 1944
DANE TECHNICZNE (B24)
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liczba stron: 240
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| | Fighting Them on the Beaches tells the story of one of the largest and most meticulously organised sea-borne invasions in the history of warfare, the Allied landings of 6 June 1944 in Normandy. The intelligence operations prior to the actual attack convinced the German High Command that any invasion attempt would come at Calais: so successful were they that seven weeks after D-Day, Hitler still expected the ‘real’ invasion at Calais. The parachutists and glider troops of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, and the British 6th Airborne, landing shortly after midnight on D-Day, cut German communications, captured vital bridges, and sowed confusion amongst the enemy. The seaborne troops landed in their assault craft, and fought their way up the beaches of Normandy against the entrenched defenders of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, sometimes, as in the case of the U.S 1st Division on Omaha Beach, suffering appalling losses against numerically far superior forces. By midnight on D-Day, 150,000 Allied troops were ashore, and the process of consolidation of the beachheads had begun. The final section of Fighting Them on the Beaches looks at this consolidation of the Allied beachheads, analyses the gains made on D-Day and in the later campaign, and assesses the effects these had on the pursuit of the final year of war. |
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