Operation Neptune: The Inside Story of Naval Operations for the Normandy Landings, 1944In this timeless book, Vice Admiral Schofield describes the great events of June 1944 which, as Captain of HMS Dryad, the Royal Naval shore establishment which housed General Dwight Eisenhower s Supreme Allied Headquarters before the landing, he witnessed at first hand. |
Contents
Planning Problems | 13 |
The Naval Plan | 28 |
Final Preparations | 45 |
The Assault | 81 |
The Last Phase | 111 |
Details of Special Craft employed during | 128 |
Notes on German Naval Battle Units | 143 |
Copy of Letter from Admiral Ramsay to the Author | 150 |
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_ 1 _ Admiral Ramsay Air Force aircraft Allied amphibious operations armoured Army Arromanches ashore assault area assault forces assault groups attack batteries battleships boats bombarding ships bombs Brigade British build—up capture carried casualties Channel Cherbourg Chiefs of Staff coasters convoys Cotentin Peninsula cruisers D—day damaged DD tanks Division east Eisenhower enemy enemy’s equipment fire Fleet flotilla four France Friedrich Ruge German guns H—hour harbour Havre headquarters Hitler HMS Bulolo Infantry inshore invasion June Juno Juno beach knots Landing Craft Tank Landing Ship launched LCTs Le Havre LSTs miles minelaying mines minesweepers Mulberry Mulberry harbours Naval Commander Navy night Normandy coast officers Omaha Operation Neptune organisation Ouistreham patrol Port en Bessin Portsmouth radar Rear-Admiral Rommel sector ships and craft shore Speed Stagg sunk Supreme Commander target tons torpedo towed troops U—boats United unloading Utah beach vehicles weather West Western