D-Day General: How Dutch Cota Saved Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944

by Joseph Balkoski and Noel Mehlo

Omaha was the make-or-break Allied beach on D-Day--in (perhaps) the make-or-break campaign of World War II. If American soldiers couldn't gain a foothold there, then D-Day was unlikely to succeed. On June 6, 1944, U.S. troops on Omaha suffered the worst casualties of any of the five Allied invasion beaches--so many casualties, and so much tactical difficulty, that Omaha almost didn't succeed. One big reason why Americans gained a foothold on Omaha...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811739651
• ISBN13: 9780811739658
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"