Landing in Normandy. The largest landing operation in history. Khitryak E., Muzalkov E.

On the night of June 5 to 6, 1944, Churchill sent an encoded message in which he informed Stalin that the “second front”, about which so many copies were broken, will open a few hours later. ” In fact, by this time the invasion had already begun-in the operational rear of the German troops that defended the Normandy coast, the paratroopers of the three airborne divisions of the Allies fought for key transport nodes and bridges, and at dawn, a large-scale landing began from the sea.

Armada of the ships of the United Expeditionary Fleet delivered shock forces to the beaches of Normandy, which had to check the Atlantic shaft announced by the Nazis impregnable. Although the landing of the largest landing in world history was preceded by two years of painstaking planning and thorough preparation of troops, literally from the first minute the events began to develop not as expected in the headquarters of the allies. The uncertainty on the Normandy coast remained for a long seven days, while the invasion forces were not able to finally fulfill the first of the tasks of the “Crusade to Europe” - to combine disparate coastal bridgeheads and prepare for a throw deep into France.

This is richly The illustrated book of famous battles on the Western Front of World War II in detail tells about the opening of the Second Front - the first week of Operation Opertlord, describing the fighting on five coastal bridges in all details.