D Day Gunners
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D Day Gunners
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Author : Frank Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2022-07-20
D Day Gunners written by Frank Baldwin and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-20 with History categories.
Part history book and part travel guide, D-Day Gunners is aimed at anyone interested in the artillery on the D-Day beaches and landing grounds. While the heritage of the D-Day beaches and landing sites is well documented, this rarely includes the artillery story. The author of this book aims to correct this by providing a visitors' guide to the artillery stories associated with the battlefield heritage that remains on the D-Day beaches, mapping the fire-plan for D-Day against the known German locations, and looking at what happened at these places. There is relatively little explanation about the role of the artillery in general or the deeds of artillerymen, in particular those of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. This book tells of the significance of artillery on D-Day and the part it played in the outcome. Initial reports published stressed that the coastal defences were effectively neutralized by the bombing and that no significant counter attacks developed on D-Day. However, post-war accounts increasingly attributed allied success to allied fire power. The book tells the story of the men who served the guns on the D-Day beaches, and the effects they had on the outcome of the battles on D-Day and afterwards. This volume is primarily about British Gunners and certain German Kannoniers. The book has been written as a guide to the battlefields on the D-Day beaches and landing grounds, telling the gunners’ stories that are not always commemorated on memorials, interpretation boards, or recorded in more general guides. These poignant stories include war poets and heroes decorated for bravery, or just the tales of some of the men buried in the war cemeteries or commemorated on the memorials. It also provides a guide in lay terms of the technical impact of field anti-tank and AA artillery on the war. A second volume will tell the story of artillerymen on the American beaches and landing grounds.
Gunners In Normandy
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Author : Major Frank Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Gunners In Normandy written by Major Frank Baldwin and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with History categories.
The official account of the Royal Artillery's activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment, integrating newly published research with a detailed account of their activities, logistics and equipment in the offensive. Gunners in Normandy includes mention of every regiment that served, a Roll of Honour, and a list of the dead by unit. This book presents the definitive record of events, assembled from interviews with veterans, papers and documents from the Firepower Archives, terrain studies, personal memoirs, war diaries and other official documents. Serious students of the battle for Normandy should find this essential reading, with comprehensive coverage of the role of the Royal Artillery, and much material not published anywhere else, including orders of battle, the details of targets engaged by the guns and their effectiveness.
A Machine Gunner S War
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Author : Ernest Albert Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2022-06-20
A Machine Gunner S War written by Ernest Albert Andrews and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A machine gunner chronicles his time on the frontlines of WW2 from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and the Wehrmacht’s last stand. American machine gunner Ernest “Andy” Andrews arrived in the UK just before deploying to fight in D-Day. Struck by a bullet in Normandy, he was evacuated to England before returning to participate in the race across France. Andy’s squad defended a bunker in the Siegfried Line and fought its way through the Hurtgen Forest to take Hill 232. When the Germans attempted to retake the hill, Andy faced his toughest battle and suffered a shoulder wound. Andy rejoined his company in time to fight in the Battle of the Bulge and the Rhine campaign, and in Germany's Harz Mountains, where the Wehrmacht was trying to organize a last stand. Andy's outfit ends the war fighting in Czechoslovakia, where Andy witnesses the German surrender. Following occupation duty, Andy returned to the States in October 1945. The war shaped Andy's postwar life in countless ways, and in 1994, Andy made the first of three return visits to the European battlefields where he had fought. This vivid firsthand account takes the reader along from Normandy to victory with Andy and his machine-gun crew.
D Day
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Author : Reginald William Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Pan
Release Date : 1972
D Day written by Reginald William Thompson and has been published by Pan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
Voices From D Day
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Author : Jonathan Bastable
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Voices From D Day written by Jonathan Bastable and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
This title explores the most momentous turning-point of World War II. Compiled from contemporary letters and diaries, Voices from D-Day features stunningly evocative first-hand accounts of the Normandy landings, from both sides of the battle. Here, you will find the voices of the great military planners, Churchill, Paton and Eisenhower, alongside tales from the ordinary soldiers under fire and the French people watching the invasion. It also features material from international sources, including the Eisenhower Centre in America, and the Imperial War Museum and Portsmouth D-Day Museum in the UK.
D Day To Arnhem
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Author : Robert Kiln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
D Day To Arnhem written by Robert Kiln and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
D Day
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Author : Spencer C. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-11-03
D Day written by Spencer C. Tucker and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-03 with History categories.
This outstanding overview of D-Day makes clear its great importance in military and world history, identifies mistakes committed on both sides, and explains all aspects of the 1944 Allied invasion of France and the Normandy Campaign that followed. The beach landings at Normandy, France, in June of 1944 were of critical importance in the outcome of World War II, and as a consequence, served to determine the economic and political state of the modern world as we know it. This latest reference book edited by esteemed historian Spencer C. Tucker supplies easy-to-understand overview entries on the Normandy Invasion ("Operation OVERLORD") and the European Theater in World War II as well as entries treating specific topics such as key individuals, technical innovations, weapons systems, command structures, terrain and logistical difficulties, and the role played by weather. Readers will come to understand why the eventual success of the Allied forces in the D-Day operations was so hard-fought and came at a tremendous cost of life. The book addresses the immense difficulty of supplying tens of thousands of soldiers—many of them inexperienced in combat—and countless tons of equipment and vehicles to the invasion force from over the beaches, after most of the teams landed in the wrong locations, and when many command structures were wiped out almost immediately upon landing; and it explains how these factors impacted the combat on the ground and resulted in the Allied forces' careful planning going awry. The book also describes the elaborate deception carried out by the Allies regarding the invasion landing site and how these efforts impacted battle developments, and it presents nine primary documents that treat various aspects of the battle, including the lengthy Allied plan for the invasion and primary sources of directives regarding the battle and technical innovations.
The Guns Of Normandy
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Author : George Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2012-03-26
The Guns Of Normandy written by George Blackburn and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-26 with History categories.
In the weeks after D-Day, the level of artillery action in Normandy was unprecedented. In what was a relatively small area, both sides bombarded each other relentlessly for three months, each trying to overwhelm the other by sheer fire power. The Guns of Normandy puts the reader in the front lines of this horrific battle. In the most graphic and authentic detail, it brings to life every aspect of a soldier’s existence, from the mortal terror of impending destruction, to the unending fatigue, to the giddy exhilaration at finding oneself still, inexplicably, alive. The story of this crucial battle opens in England, as the 4th Field Regiment receives news that something big is happening in France and that after long years of training they are finally going into action. The troop ships set out from besieged London and arrive at the D-Day beaches in the appalling aftermath of the landing. What follows is the most harrowing and realistic account of what it is like to be in action, as the very lead man in the attack: an artillery observer calling in fire on enemy positions. The story unfolds in the present tense, giving the uncomfortably real sense that “You are here.” The conditions under which the troops had to exist were horrific. There was near-constant terror of being hit by incoming shells; prolonged lack of sleep; boredom; weakness from dysentery; sudden and gruesome deaths of close friends; and severe physical privation and mental anguish. And in the face of all this, men were called upon to perform heroic acts of bravery and they did. Blackburn provides genuine insight to the nature of military service for the average Canadian soldier in the Second World War – something that is all too often lacking in the accounts of armchair historians and television journalists. The result is a classic account of war at the sharp end. From the Hardcover edition.
D Day As They Saw It
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Author : Jon E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Release Date : 2004
D Day As They Saw It written by Jon E. Lewis and has been published by Carroll & Graf Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Culled from the first-hand reports of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the English Channel, this extraordinary document of D-Day includes classic accounts from Field Marshal Rommel, General Bradley, Ernest Hemingway, Alan Melville, and many other eyewitnesses. Original.
Disaster At D Day
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Author : Peter Tsouras
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2015-07-03
Disaster At D Day written by Peter Tsouras and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-03 with Fiction categories.
The editor of Hitler Triumphant combines history and fiction to craft an alternative history of the Normandy landings on D-Day. It is June, 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the signs of invasion, ready for the final battle . . . What happens next is well-known to any student of modern history. The outcome could easily have been very different, as Peter Tsouras shows in this masterful and devastating account in which plans, missions, and landings go horribly wrong. Tsouras firmly bases his narrative on facts but introduces minor adjustments at the opening of the campaign—the repositioning of a unit, bad weather and misjudged orders—and examines their effect as they gather momentum and impact on all subsequent events. Without deviating from the genuine possibilities of the situation, he presents a scenario that keeps the reader guessing and changes the course of history. Praise for Disaster at D-Day “A brilliant and interesting book. The author has pulled off a great feat of imagination and research.” —Military Illustrated “This should find a place on the shelves of anyone with an interest in the period and would be invaluable background reading in preparation for a battlefield tour of Normandy.” —The British Army Review