THE FRENCH IN THE LANDINGS
THE FRENCH IN THE LANDINGS
THE FRENCH IN THE LANDINGS
THE FRENCH IN THE LANDINGS
THE FRENCH IN THE LANDINGS
THE FRENCH IN THE LANDINGS

The French in the D-Day Landings

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Among the 155,000 Allied soldiers deployed in Normandy on 6 June 1944, a handful of Frenchmen formed a battalion commonly known as Commando Kieffer.

 

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The action of this elite unit was decisive in the first phase of Operation Overlord.

His exploits must not overshadow the other French forces involved in D-Day in equally decisive roles: the Free French Air Force units integrated into Royal Air Force fighter and bomber groups, the ships of the Free French Naval Forces positioned off the landing beaches, and the paratroopers of the 4th SAS.

Finally, what can be said of the decisive action of General Leclerc and the 16,000 men of his armoured division, which landed at Utah Beach and, on its march towards Paris, had to endure fierce fighting and suffer heavy losses for the liberation of Normandy.

This book revisits for the first time all those Frenchmen — volunteer fighters, resistance members, FFI, anonymous heroes — who took part, alongside the Allies, in the battles of the summer of 1944 for the liberation of France.

Author 1
Stéphane Simonnet
Publication date
June 6, 2019
Pages
128
Illustrations
200+ photos
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
OREP
EAN
9782815104531

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