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Название: Merville Battery & The Dives Bridges (Battleground Europe) Автор: Carl Shilleto Издательство: Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 1848845197 Год: 2011 Формат: PDF Страниц: 356 Размер: 63,4 МБ Язык: Английский
This battlefield guide is the companion work to Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge. Together, these two books form the fully revised and updated edition of the previous best selling Battleground Europe Series book Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery.This book examines, in great detail, the attack by 9 Para Bn of the British 6th Airborne Division on the German gun emplacement known as the Merville Battery on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The actions of 8 Para, 12 Para, Canadian 1 Para, attached engineer and support units, and commando raids in this area of Normandy are also told. In particular, the importance of destroying the five bridges, and a drainage culvert, in the Dives valley are explained along with the importance of taking and holding the high ground to the north-east of Caen.
Air War D-Day: Winged Pegasus and The Rangers Название: Air War D-Day: Winged Pegasus and The Rangers Автор: Martin Bowman Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1781591180 Год: 2013 Формат: PDF...
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