D-Day (eBook)

The Air and Sea Invasion of Normandy in Photos

Nicholas A. Veronico (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
240 Seiten
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-6813-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast, ferried men, tanks, and equipment across the channel, and landed 150,000 troopsunder withering German fireon Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches in a single day. In numbers and scope, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.Meanwhile, some 12,000 aircraft flew above the sea, a dizzying assortment of fighters and bombers, transports, recon craft, and gliders. Taking off from air fields in England, they dropped thousands of paratroopers and even vehicles, bombed roads and German positions miles inland, provided vital intelligence, and attacked any German planes that were able to take to the skies. It was the largest single-day aerial operation in history.And yet these importantand impressiveaspects of D-Day haven't received the coverage they deserve, having been overshadowed by the fighting on the beaches. Veronico assembles photos of both the air and sea components of the D-Day invasion, giving the sailors and airmen their due and giving modern readers a vivid sense of what this monumental day was like in the air and at sea.

Autor

Nicholas A. Veronico is public affairs officer for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and its SOFIA program (NASA’s airborne observatory). He previously worked as an aviation journalist and has numerous aviation titles to his credit, including, for Stackpole, Boneyard Nose Art (2013), Bloody Skies (2014), and Pearl Harbor Air Raid (2016).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 101st airborne • 1st Infantry Division • 82nd airborne • Adam Makos • aerial combat • Air • airborne landing • Aircraft • alex kershaw • Allied ships • Amphibious Assault • band of brothers • Battleships • Beaches • Bloody Omaha • bombers • channel • citizen soldiers • cornelius ryan • cruisers • D-Day • D-Day 75th anniversary • destroyers • Dick Winters • Dwight Eisenhower • English Channel • Fighters • German • Gliders • Gold • Greatest Generation • great war images • historian • Historical • History • important • impressive • Invasion • Joseph Balkoski • June 6, 1944 • Juno • landing craft • landing ship • largest invasion in history • liberation of Europe • Longest Day • Monumental • Naval History • Normandy • normandy invasion • Omaha • Omaha Beach • Operation Neptune • Operation Overlord • Operation Pointblank • paratroopers • rick atkinson • Saving Private Ryan • Sea • stephen ambrose • Sword • Tanks • Utah • Utah Beach • Visual History • World War II 75th anniversary • World War II at sea • World War II illustrated • World War II images • World War II navy • World War II photos
• ISBN-10: 0-8117-6813-9 / 0811768139
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-6813-9 / 9780811768139