D-Day Operations Manual: 'Neptune', 'Overlord' and the Battle of Normandy - 75th Anniversary Edition: Insights Into How Science, Technology and

by Jonathan Falconer and Stuart Watson

The landing of Allied forces on the shores of Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the greatest amphibious invasion in history. Technology and innovation played crucial parts in the D-Day drama - from tank-carrying gliders, swimming tanks and the Mulberry harbors, to radio and radar aids that ensured landing craft arrived on the right beaches and combat aircraft overhead were controlled. D-Day Operations Manual describes the development, construction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785216554
• ISBN13: 9781785216558
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.7"