D-Day: History in an Hour
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Midnight, Tuesday 6 June 1944: the beginning of D-Day, the operation to invade Nazi-occupied Western Europe and initiate the final phase of World War II. A vast undertaking, it involved 12,000 aircraft and an amphibious assault of almost 7,000 vessels. 160,000 troops would cross the English Channel during Operation Overlord, paving the way for more than three million allied troops to enter France by the end of August 1944.Forces from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Free French and Poland all heavily participated, alongside contingents from Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, and Norway, They capitalised on the element of surprise achieved due to bad weather and the success of Operation Bodyguard – a feat of massive deception to convince Hitler that the landings would hit Pas-de-Calais. In just over a year, the war would be won. ‘D-Day: History in an Hour’ is the story of how the largest military operation in history had been planned, practised and executed.Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…
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Rupert Colley. D-Day: History in an Hour
D-DAYHistory in an Hour. Rupert Colley
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
The Dieppe Raid
PLANNING. Casablanca Conference
COSSAC
The Mulberry Harbours
Hobart’s Funnies
DECEPTION
Italy
EISENHOWER
THE ATLANTIC WALL
BOMBING
TRAINING
EVE OF THE INVASION. 1 June
2 June
3 June
4 June
5 June
6 JUNE: D-DAY (the 1,738th day of the war)
Pegasus Bridge
Merville Battery
FIVE BEACHES
Omaha
Utah
Sword
Gold
Juno
THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY
Germany
LIBERATION
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN…
Appendix 1: Key Players. DWIGHT ‘IKE’ EISENHOWER (1890–1969)
OMAR BRADLEY (1893–1981)
ROBERT CAPA (1913–54)
JUAN PUJOL GARCIA (1912–88)
BERNARD MONTGOMERY (1887–1976)
ERWIN ROMMEL (1891–1944)
CHARLES DE GAULLE (1890–1970)
Appendix 2: Timeline. 1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
D-Day, 6 June
Post D-Day
1945
Appendix 3: D-Day and Battle of Normandy Statistics. D-Day numbers killed:
Battle of Normandy casualties
The D-Day armada
Appendix 4: Normandy Cemeteries
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Cover
Title Page
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About the Publisher
As a consequence of Casablanca, in March 1943, Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Morgan was charged with the initial planning of a cross-Channel invasion of occupied Western Europe, codenamed Overlord, to include a naval assault, codenamed Neptune. Morgan, leading a team of fifty, was given the title Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (COSSAC), though the Allies had yet to decide who their Supreme Commander should be. Undeterred, the COSSAC team, based in London’s St James’s Square, began work.
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