D-Day 1944
Subtitle: Utah Beach & U.S. airborne landings
By: Steven J. Zaloga.
Series: Praeger illustrated military history series
Publisher: Praeger; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.
Description: "The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 were the largest amphibious military operation ever mounted. During the late spring and early summer of 1944 the roads and ports of southern England were thronged with the troops, vehicles and ships of the invasion force. The greatest armada the world had ever seen had been assembled to transport the US 1st Army and the British 2nd Army across the narrow strip of the Channel and open the long-awaited second front against Hitler's Third Reich. This book reveals the events of this single day on Utah beach, one of the two US landings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94) and index.
Originally published: Oxford : Osprey Pub., 2004.