The Story of D-day: June 6, 1944The story of the Allied attack on Hitler's Atlantic Wall on the coast of Normandy, the turning point of the World War II. |
Contents
The Great Assault | 3 |
Attack by Section | 9 |
Operation Overlord | 24 |
Copyright | |
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advance ahead Air Force airborne Allies American amphibious Armstrong Sperry ashore assault boats assault sections assault troops Atlantic Wall attack barbed wire battalion battery battle beach exits bluffs boat section bombardment bombs Bradley bullets Captain Chief cliff coast Colonel Mullins commander Company G D-Day Dawson DD tanks Dives River Division Duck east Eisenhower fighting first-wave fortified France French German gun German strongpoints going ground H-Hour Hitler howitzer hundred yards infantry infantrymen invasion James Daugherty Juno knew Lambert landing craft LCA's LCVP LCVP's machine-gun fire minutes Moody mortar Moulins move navy Omaha beach Orne River paratroopers pillboxes Pointe du Hoe Quentin Reynolds ramp Rangers Regiment rifles ropes Samuel Hopkins Adams sault sea wall shells shooting shore Shuford soldiers started surf Sword thought toe hold Trafford Leigh-Mallory U. S. Army photograph Utah beach Vierville Vierville draw waiting wave weather wounded