Armoured Warfare in the Battle for Normandy by Anthony Tucker-Jones

Author:Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS027100: HISTORY / Military / World War II
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781783038152
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2012-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

It took the Americans two weeks to secure the Cotentin peninsula and the port of Cherbourg. The latter was captured along with 21,000 German troops, some of whom can be seen here marching into captivity. On D-Day one of the few armoured units in the area was Panzer Battalion 206, equipped with twenty-four second-hand French tanks at Cap de la Hague, the northernmost tip of the peninsula. It was swiftly wiped out in the fighting that followed. (US Army/NARA)

While British armour such as this Cromwell and Sherman Firefly were slogging it out with the Germans either side of Caen, Montgomery decided to use three infantry divisions to seize the city west of the Orne River. The removal of the enemy salient west of the Orne meant that Monty could then extend the Allied bridgehead east of the river held by the hard-pressed 6th Airborne and 51st Highland Divisions. (Author’s Collection)

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