A collection of articles related to the Allied forces present on D-Day.
The following article on British Army Divisions in World War Two is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman' D-Day Encyclopedia. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The overriding concern of the British army in 1944 was manpower. After four years of war and enormous drain not only on the…
The following article on army airborne units is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman' D-Day Encyclopedia. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In the fifteenth century Leonardo Da Vinci envisioned airborne soldiers, and in the nineteenth century Napoleon Bonaparte pondered invading Britain with French troops in hot-air balloons. But…