Normandy to victory : the war diary of General Courtney H. Hodges and the First U.S. Army /

The war diary of General Courtney Hicks Hodges begins on June 2, 1944, as Hodges and the U.S. First Army prepare for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France. Hodges' aides, Major William C. Sylvan and Captain Francis G. Smith Jr., recorded daily entries, which Hodges reviewed and appr...

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書誌詳細
第一著者: Sylvan, William C.
その他の著者: Smith, Francis G., Jr, Hodges, Courtney H., 1887-1966, Greenwood, John T.
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky ©2008.
シリーズ:American warriors (Lexington, Ky.)
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcr3j
目次:
  • The invasion of France and the lodgment in Normandy, 2 June-24 July 1944
  • Operation Cobra and the breakthrough at St. Lô, 25-31 July 1944
  • Exploitation of the St. Lô breakthrough, 1 August-12 September 1944
  • The Battle of Germany, 13 September-15 December 1944
  • The German counteroffensive and the drive to the Roer River, 16 December 1944-22 February 1945
  • Crossing the Roer River, 23-28 February 1945
  • Crossing the Rhine River, 1-24 March 1945
  • Exploitation of the Remagen Bridgehead, 25 March-18 April 1945
  • Final operations, 19 April-7 May 1945
  • Appendix: Locations of the First U.S. Army command posts, 9 June 1944-14 May 1945.