D-Day: Omaha Beach by Stephen Badsey
At 0630 hours on 6 June 1944, the US Army's 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions led the assault on Omaha Beach, the most strongly defended of the all invasion beaches. Supporting Allied bombers had mostly missed their targets, the offshore naval bombardment was hampered by poor visibility, and many elements of the first assault waves were swamped or sank, including amphibious tanks. The first waves of infantry waded ashore into a storm of German fire. In these first harrowing hours of 'Overlord', Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, commanding First US Army, seriously considered aborting the Omaha landing altogether. Yet despite appalling difficulties and heavy casualties, the US troops prevailed and a vulnerable bridgehead inland was established by the evening of 6 June. It was the hardest fight of D-Day.
Badsey, Stephen: - Stephen Badsey MA (Cantab.) PhD (Cantab.) FRHistS is currently Professor of Conflict Studies at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK. Educated at Cambridge University, he has previously held positions at the Imperial War Museum in London, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, as well as various universities in the UK and overseas. An internationally recognised expert on British military history from the mid-19th century to the present day, he is a specialist on military ideas, and on propaganda and military-media relations in wartime. He has advised or addressed numerous academic, military and government organisations, his writings have been translated into five languages, and he appears frequently on television and in other media. He is the Series Editor of the Wolverhampton Military Studies Series of books for Helion.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780752459158 |
| ISBN 10 | 0752459155 |
| Title | D-Day: Omaha Beach |
| Author | Stephen Badsey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The History Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-02-25 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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