D-Day by Rick Atkinson

Author:Rick Atkinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

U.S. soldiers wait to board landing craft to Utah Beach. Waterproof bags cover their guns.

He was on the wrong beach. Billowing dust from the air and naval bombardment hid what few landmarks existed on the flat coastline, and the two guide boats leading the flotilla had fallen back—one with a fouled propeller, the other sunk with a hole in the port bow from a mine. Rather than landing adjacent to the causeway over the flooded marshlands, Roosevelt and his spearhead of six hundred men had come ashore almost two thousand yards south. Worse still, eight LCTs carrying thirty-two Sherman tanks, outfitted with propellers and inflatable canvas bloomers allowing them to putter to shore, had been delayed when one vessel tripped another mine. Four tanks went to the bottom and some twenty men to their graves. Rather than beaching just behind the assault infantry as intended, the remaining Shermans would arrive twenty minutes late.

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