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Author Vansant, Wayne.

Title Normandy, a graphic history of D-Day : the allied invasion of Hitler's fortress europe [Hoopla electronic resource].

Publication Info. [United States] : Voyageur Press, 2012.
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Summary Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there. Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore. The Germans made every effort to push them back into the sea. This book depicts the such key events in the Allied liberation of Europe as: 1. Construction of the Mulberry Harbors, two giant artificial harbors built in England and floated across the English Channel so that troops, vehicles, and supplies could be offloaded across the invasion beaches. 2. The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of Gennan pillboxes. 3. The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-Lô. 4. The British-Canadian struggle for the city of Caen against the "Hitler Youth Division," made up of 23,000 seventeen- and eighteen-year-old Nazi fanatics. 5. The breakout of General Patton's Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division's defense of Mortaine. 6. The Falaise Pocket, known as the "Killing Ground," where the remnants of two German armies were trapped and bombed and shelled into submission. The slaughter was so great that 5,000 Germans were buried in one mass grave. 7. The Liberation of Paris, led by the 2nd Free French Armored Division, which had been fighting for four long years with this goal in mind.
Audience Rated T
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Comic books, strips, etc.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Juvenile literature.
Normandy (France) -- History, Military -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Normandy (France) -- History, Military -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Electronic books.
Graphic novels.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Added Author Vansant, Wayne.
hoopla digital.
ISBN 9781610586658 (electronic bk.)
1610586654 (electronic bk.)
Music No. MWT11979888
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