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1) D-Day Story
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A pocket-sized, stunningly illustrated guide to one of the most famous military operations of all time-D-DayJune 6, 1944 is a day that is emblazoned in history; the first day of the Allied Operation Overlord-the mass invasion of Normandy. Planned for many months and executed swiftly, these landings saw more than 160,000 troops embark from specially designed crafts onto a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast. It was the largest amphibious operation...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating look into the aircrews used and the effect on those who had to live through this constant bombing" by the RAF during World War II ( UK Historian ). Berlin was bombed by four Allied air forces between 1940 and 1945. British bombers alone dropped 45,517 tons of bombs, while the Americans a further 23,000 tons. By 1944, some 1.2 million people, 790,000 of them women and children, about a quarter of Berlin's population, had been evacuated...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF), American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and British Special Operations Executive (SOE) jointly played a crucial part in operations behind enemy lines in occupied Europe during World War II. Milton Ernest Hall, a country house in Bedfordshire and official UK headquarters of the U.S. Army Airforce Service Command, was located at the heart of a network of top secret Allied Radio and propaganda transmitting stations,...
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