The D-Day Landing on Gold Beach
6 June 1944
The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944, across five sectors of the French coast - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword - constituted the largest amphibious invasion in history. This study analyses in depth the preparations and implementation of the D-Day landing on Gold Beach by XXX Corps. Historians have tended to dismiss the landing on Gold Beach as straightforward but the evidence points to a different reality. Armour supported the infantry landing and prior bombing was intended to weaken German defences; however, the bulk of the bombing landed too far inland, and many craft foundered in difficult conditions at sea. It was the tenacity of the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-7340-9
- EAN: 9781441173409
- Produktnummer: 19575061
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'103 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Andrew Holborn is an independent scholar and the author of The 56th Infantry Brigade and D-Day.
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