Steven J. Zaloga

D-Day 1944 (2) (eBook, ePUB)

Utah Beach & the US Airborne Landings
Illustrator: Gerrard, Howard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Utah Beach & the US Airborne Landings.

On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah" Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker German resistance as a result. The heaviest fighting took place inland where the badly scattered paratroopers gradually gathered in small groups and made for their objectives.

This book traces the story of D-Day on Utah beach, revealing how the infantry pushed inland and linked up with the Airborne troops in a beachhead five miles deep. Now the battle to break out and seize the key port of Cherbourg could begin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782001478
• Artikelnr.: 44626454

Autorenporträt

Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history, including NVG 294 Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 and NVG 283 American Guided Missiles of World War II. He currently lives in Maryland, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Origins of the Battle Chronology Opposing Commanders Opposing Armies
Opposing Plans The Landings 4th Inf. Div. Uncle & Victor Beaches 82nd
Airborne at St Mere Eglise 101st Airborne and the Carentan Road Six Days
7-12 June Aftermath The Battlefield Today Bibliography Index