Normandy 1944 The Battle Of The Hedgerows

Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526723719

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Normandy 1944: the Battle of the Hedgerows by Simon Forty Pdf

Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army labored to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode in the Normandy campaign, and this photographic history is a vivid introduction to it. Through a selection of over 150 carefully chosen and meticulously captioned wartime photographs Simon Forty traces the course of the battle and gives the reader a graphic impression of the conditions, the terrain and the experience of the troops. The Germans mounted a tenacious defense. They fought from prepared positions in the high hedgerows. Each cramped field and narrow lane became a killing ground. But the Americans adapted their tactics and brought in special equipment including bulldozers and tanks with hedgerow cutters to force their way through. The losses were appalling as the Germans used snipers, mines, machine guns and artillery to great effect. Inexorably, however, and with enormous bravery, First Army solved their tactical problems, inflicted heavy casualties on the defenders and ground their way to Saint-Lô.

Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526723727

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Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows by Simon Forty Pdf

With rare wartime photography, this WWII history presents an in-depth look at one of the most grueling and vital battles of the Normandy campaign. After storming the beaches on D-Day, the US First Army labored to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode in the Normandy campaign, and this photographic history is a vivid introduction to it. The Germans mounted a tenacious defense from the high hedgerows. But the Americans adapted their tactics and brought in special equipment including bulldozers and tanks with hedgerow cutters to force their way through. In spite of appalling losses, First Army overcame their tactical problems and ground their way to Saint-L. Through a selection of over 150 carefully chosen and meticulously captioned wartime photographs, Simon Forty traces the course of the battle and gives the reader a graphic impression of the conditions, the terrain, and the experience of the troops.

Author : Leo J. Daugherty
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053368737

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The Battle of the Hedgerows by Leo J. Daugherty Pdf

Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings, was an unqualified success and in the days after the allied invasion of northern France, tens of thousands of troops were landed inland. General Omar Bradley's First Army has superior mobility, plus lavish quantities of stream-crossing and bridging equipment. However, as they headed inland, the Americans had to cope with terrain that largely negated their mobile superiority - the Bocage. The Battle of the Hedgerows is an account of the US First Army over seven gruelling weeks in June and July 1944. The book makes it clear that, although German defenders were outnumbered and out gunned, they had a crucial advantage: hedges. The Bocage is divided in a multitude of earthen-walled enclosures, all of which are surrounded by high, dense hedgerows. All but the most important roads are sunken lanes, with foliage arching over them. Each field and hedgerow was turned into a defensive position by the Germans, and their 88s, machine guns and mortars took a heavy toll of US troops in the fighting. In addition, many of the US soldiers and their commanders were inexperienced, Having never seen combat.Their opponents, on the other hand, the troops of II Parachute Corps, though deficient in air and artillery support, were seasoned veterans, especially the all important NCOs. As the book shows, the fighting consisted of thousands of field-by-field infantry battles that were sometimes disturbingly reminiscent of the western front in World War 1. The Bocage was a soldier's battle in every sense, as US troops embarked on a bloody learning curve to master the skills of close combat riflemen and nearly 150% casualties among its officers during the Period Although it is often perceived that there was an inevitability about the allied victory once D-Day proved successful, the reality of the Normandy campaign - as revealed through the pages of The Battle of the Hedgerows - shows that the ultimate Allied victory was wrought only after stern German defence. As such the book will be of interest to all military historians and those fascinated by the course of World War 2.

Author : Leo Daughertry
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0760311668

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Battle of the Hedgerows by Leo Daughertry Pdf

A blow-by-blow account of vicious post-D-Day battles fought in France amid hedges, ditches and earthen walls.

Author : Leo Daugherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:19004659

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Battle of the Hedgerows by Leo Daugherty Pdf

Author : Michael Dale Doubler
Publisher : Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Bocage normand (France)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082400412

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Busting the Bocage by Michael Dale Doubler Pdf

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472816948

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St Lô 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga Pdf

Following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, the First US Army engaged in a six-week struggle to break out of the Normandy beach-head. The hedgerow country of lower Normandy, called the Bocage, presented unanticipated tactical problems since it proved to be ideal for German infantry defense. This book examines the brutal attritional struggle in June-July 1944 to overcome the determined German defense and secure St Lô. The city was the site of a crucial cross-roads and was thus a vital target for the invading Allied forces; the initial bombing attacks were so severe that the journalist and poet Samuel Beckett would later report that it had been 'bombed out of existence in one night'. The attack by ground forces turned into a brutal attritional struggle to overcome the determined German defense. Using full-colour artwork, photographs and maps, this is the engaging story of one of the key engagements in the Battle of Normandy.

Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526723765

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Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen by Simon Forty Pdf

Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as Simon Forty demonstrates in this photographic history, one of the most controversial.His detailed, graphic account gives the reader a fascinating insight into the opposing forces, the conditions, the terrain, the equipment and weaponry deployed and it illustrates just how intense and protracted the fighting was on the ground.The reasons for the slow Allied advance have been hotly disputed. Deficiencies in British and Canadian equipment and tactics have been blamed, as has the tenacity of the German resistance. Ultimately a sequence of Allied operations sapped the defenders strength, and it is these operations Perch, Martlet, Epsom, Windsor, Charnwood, Jupiter, Atlantic, Goodwood that feature strongly in the striking photographs that have been selected for this book.They record in the most dramatic fashion the character of the fighting and show how even the SS divisions and heavy tank battalions were eventually defeated.

Author : Didier Lodieu
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 2352500354

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Dying for Saint-Lo by Didier Lodieu Pdf

From 5 to 20 July 1944 American invasion forces ran into fierce resistance around the French town of Saint-Lô, an important railway and road communications center in Normandy. As well as the Heer divisions such as the Panzer Lehr, GIs had to fight the redoubtable paratroopers and Waffen-SS who made them pay a heavy price for each hedgerow and each village they managed to take.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472816931

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St Lô 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga Pdf

A highly illustrated new study of the bitter fighting between D-Day and the breakout from Normandy in the bitter, attritional fighting in the bocage country for the vital crossroads of St Lô. It will appeal to any enthusiast of land warfare in World War II.

Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553659723

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Breakout From Juno by Mark Zuehlke Pdf

The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings. On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a bloody fight. The Canadians advanced relentlessly at a great cost in bloodshed. Within 2 weeks the 2nd Infantry and 4th Armoured divisions joined coming together as the First Canadian Army. The soldiers fought within a narrow landscape extending a mere 21 miles from Caen to Falaise. They won a two-day battle for Verrières Ridge starting on July 21, after 1,500 casualties. More bloody battles followed, until finally, on August 21, the narrowing gap that had been developing at Falaise closed when American and Canadian troops shook hands. The German army in Normandy had been destroyed, only 18,000 of about 400,000 men escaping. The Allies suffered 206,000 casualties, of which 18,444 were Canadians. Breakout from Juno is a story of uncommon heroism, endurance and sacrifice by Canada's World War II volunteer army and pays tribute to Canada's veterans.

Author : George Wilson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307775252

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If You Survive by George Wilson Pdf

"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building. Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one who finished. In the end, he felt not like a conqueror or a victor, but an exhausted survivor, left with nothing but his life -- and his emotions. If You Survive One of the great first-person accounts of the making of a combat veteran, in the last, most violent months of World War II.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472800053

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Operation Cobra 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga Pdf

After the success of the D-Day landings, the Allied forces were bogged down in a bloody stalemate in Normandy. On 25 July 1944, General Bradley launched Operation Cobra to break the deadlock. What followed was one of the most decisive months of World War II, as US forces punched a hole in the German frontline and began a spectacular advance. As Patton's Third Army poured into Brittany and raced south to the Loire, the German army was threatened with encirclement. By the end of August German forces in Normandy were utterly destroyed, and the remaining German units in central and southern France were in headlong retreat to the German frontier. In this concise, illustrated account, Steven J. Zaloga explains how the breakout from Normandy came about.

Author : Tim Saunders
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526784247

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Battle for the Bocage: Normandy 1944 by Tim Saunders Pdf

This WWII military study examines the combat experiences of three Allied divisions charged with spearheading the invasion of Normandy. To lead the charge into France after the Normandy landings, General Montgomery brought three veteran desert formations back from the Mediterranean. They were the 50th Infantry and 7th Armored divisions, plus 4th Armored Brigade. Their task beyond the beaches was to push south to Villers Bocage with armor on the evening of D-Day in order to disrupt German counter-attacks on the beachhead. Difficulties on 50th Division’s beaches allowed time for German reinforcements to arrive in Normandy. As a result, 4th Armored Brigade was firmly blocked just south of Point 103 after an advance of less than five miles. A major counter-attack by Panzer Lehr failed, as did a renewed British attempt, this time by the vaunted 7th Armored Division, which was halted at Tilly sur Seulles. From here the fighting became a progressively attritional struggle in the hedgerows of the Bocage country south of Bayeux. More units were drawn into the fighting, which steadily extended west. Finally, an opportunity to outflank the German defenses via the Caumont Gap allowed 7th Armored Division to reach Villers Bocage. There then followed what the battalions of 50th Division describe as their ‘most unpleasant period of the war’, in bitter fighting, at often very close quarters, for the ‘next hedgerow’.

Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1147712993

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The Battle of Normandy, 1944 by Robin Neillands Pdf