Название: Air War D-Day: Assaults from the Sky
Автор: Martin W. Bowman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781591164
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 22,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
This is the second volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day that includes a multitude of personal military accounts from both Allied and German Aviation personnel ‘who were there’. Overlord began with an assault by more than 23,000 airborne troops, 15,500 of them American, behind enemy lines to soften up the German troops and to secure key objectives. 6,600 paratroopers of the US 101st ‘Screaming Eagles’ Division in 633 C-47s and 83 gliders and 6,396 paratroopers of the US 82nd ‘All American’ Division in 1,101 C-47s and 427 gliders were dropped over the neck of the Cotentin peninsula.
By the end of the operation, the list of casualties was extensive.