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D-Day Fortifications in Normandy

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Fortress - World War I & II

Last Stocked on 12/19/2024

Product Info

Title
D-Day Fortifications in Normandy
Publisher
Category
Author
Steven J Zaloga
Publish Year
2005
Pages
64
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147397082
MFG. Part #
OSPFOR037
Type
Softcover
Series
FOR37

Description

German defenses along the Normandy beaches were part of the larger Atlantic Wall fortifications designed to defend Fortress Europe. When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took command of the invasion front in late 1943, he began a program to enhance fortifications along the Normandy coast as he believed that any Allied assault had to be stopped on the invasion beaches themselves. His most important contribution to the defenses was an extensive program of improvised beach obstructions to complicate any landing attempt. This book analyses these fortifications and describes how the Allied forces overcame them on the morning of June 6, 1944.