Название: Air War D-Day: Winged Pegasus and The Rangers
Автор: Martin Bowman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781591180
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 176
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
This is the third volume of a comprehensive five part work, detailing every aspect of air and paratroop operations on the night of 5/6 June 1944. The 6th Airborne Division was to support British Second Army and First Canadian Army; its task was to seize and hold the left flank of the bridgehead. The 5th Parachute Brigade was to seize the ground each side of the bridges over the Canal du Caen and the Orne River, whilst on the same day seize and hold positions on the long wooded ridge beyond the waterways, running from Troarn in the south to the sea. This ridge with the bridges behind would eventually form the critical left flank of the army and the bridges had to be intact to permit Allied troops and supplies to pass easily back and forth.