The Big Drop by John Golley (.ePUB)
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The Big Drop: The Guns of Merville, June 1944 (Untold Stories of WWII Aerial Warfare Book 3) by John Golley
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Overview: The Merville Battery loomed over Sword Beach, a deadly threat to the success of the Normandy landings. Its destruction became one of the most daring and crucial missions of D-Day.
The Big Drop tells the dramatic, bloody story of how the 9th Parachute Battalion fought to capture and neutralise this formidable coastal stronghold.
Field-Marshal Rommel himself had warned: “Whoever occupies this field will hold the key to the gateway of France and eventually into Germany itself.”
Allied intelligence agreed, believing the battery’s steel-reinforced concrete casemates held heavy-calibre guns capable of devastating the invasion beaches. The order was clear: the battery had to be destroyed.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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