101st Airborne in Normandy June 1944 by Yves Buffetaut for Sale

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101st Airborne in NormandyJune 1944byYves Buffetaut<> <> <> <>
101st Airborne Division was activated in August 1942 in Louisiana, and its first combatmission was Operation Overlord. On D-Day—June 6, 1944—101st and 82nd Airborne droppedonto the Cotentin peninsula hours before the landings, tasked with capturing bridgesand positions, taking out German strongpointsand batteries, and securing the exitsfrom Utah and Omaha Beaches.
Things did not initially go smoothly for 101st Airborne, with cloud and antiaircraftfire disrupting the drops, resulting in some units landing scattered over a large areaoutside their designated drop zones and having to waste time assembling- stymied by lostor damaged radio equipment - or trying to achieve their objectives with severely reduced numbers.
Casualties were high in some areas due to heavy pre-registered German fire.
Nevertheless, theparatroopers fought on and they did manage to secure the crucial beach exits, even if they onlyachieved a tenuous hold on some other positions. A few days later, 101st Airborne were taskedwith attacking the German-held city of Carentan as part of the consolidation of the US beachheadsand establishment of a defensive line against the anticipated German ounteroffensive.
The 101stforced their way into Carentan on 10 and 11 June. The Germans withdrew the following day, and acounteroffensive was put down by elementsof the 2nd Armored Division.
This fully illustrated book details the planning of the airborne element of D-Day, and theexecution of the plans until the troops were withdrawn to prepare for the next big airborneoperation, Market Garden.

7by 10¼Inch Trim Size

Soft Cover

128 Pages

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