Steven J. Zaloga

Tanks of D-Day 1944 (eBook, ePUB)

Armor on the beaches of Normandy and southern France
Illustrator: Rodríguez, Felipe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Allied success in invading Fortress Europe (the area of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany) depended on getting armor onto the beaches as fast as possible. This book explains how the Allies developed the specialist tanks it needed, their qualities, deployment and numbers, and how they performed on the two crucial days when France was invaded, firstly in Normandy and then in Provence.

The focus of this volume will be on the specialized tanks developed for the Operation Neptune amphibious landings including the Duplex Drive amphibious Sherman tanks used on both the US and British/Canadian beaches. It also covers the specialized engineer tanks called "Armoured Funnies" of the British 79th Armoured Division and addresses the popular myth that US Army refusal to employ the Armoured Funnies was a principal cause for the high casualties at Omaha Beach. There is also coverage of Operation Overlord's "Forgotten D-Day", the amphibious landings of Operation Dragoon. This book addresses why there were so few Panzers opposing the landings from the German perspective as well as detailing the extent of German tank/assault gun activity on D-Day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472846655
• Artikelnr.: 61287160

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

INTRODUCTION Lessons learned? SPECIALIZED TANKS FOR OVERLORD The CDL Canal
Defence Light Night-Fighting Tank The Sherman Duplex Drive Amphibious Tank
Deep-Wading Tanks Churchill AVRE AVRE Bridging Devices AVRE Carpet Layers
Crab Flail Mine-Clearing Tank Churchill Crocodile Flamethrower Tank T1
Armored Engineer Vehicle M1 Tank-Dozer US Army acquisition of Armoured
Funnies TANKS, DOCTRINE, AND ORGANIZATION 21 Gunfire support groups Armored
engineer support THE CAMPAIGN 25 Sword Beach Juno Beach Gold Beach Omaha
Beach Utah Beach The other D-Day BATTLE ANALYSIS 45 FURTHER READING 47
INDEX 48