A History of Juno Beach and Juno, Florida
Title | A History of Juno Beach and Juno, Florida PDF eBook |
Author | Bessie Wilson DuBois |
Publisher | |
Pages | 21 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Juno Beach (Fla.) |
ISBN | 9780912451398 |
Juno Beach
Title | Juno Beach PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Zuehlke |
Publisher | D & M Publishers |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1926685709 |
On June 6, 1944 the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among this number were 18,000 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a wide expanse of sand. Code named Juno Beach. Here, sheltered inside concrete bunkers and deep trenches, hundreds of German soldiers waited to strike the first assault wave with some ninety 88-millimetre guns, fifty mortars, and four hundred machineguns. A four-foot-high sea wall ran across the breadth of the beach and extending from it into the surf itself were ranks of tangled barbed wire, tank and vessel obstacles, and a maze of mines. Of the five Allied forces landing that day, they were scheduled to be the last to reach the sand. Juno was also the most exposed beach, their day’s objectives eleven miles inland were farther away than any others, and the opposition awaiting them was believed greater than that facing any other force. At battle's end one out of every six Canadians in the invasion force was either dead or wounded. Yet their grip on Juno Beach was firm.
History of Juno Beach
Title | History of Juno Beach PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Kribbs Corbett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Juno Beach (Fla.) |
ISBN |
D-Day
Title | D-Day PDF eBook |
Author | Lance Goddard |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1550024922 |
Survivors. Vets. Comrades. A single day changed their lives forever. From the producer of the documentary Victory from Above, Lance Goddard's D-Day, Juno Beach: Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny is a montage of first-hand accounts, memories, and a pictorial archive of that day, sixty years ago. It captures all of the pride, patriotism, and collective will of Canadians who served and endured the horrific events of that day for a greater cause - for freedom, to defeat Hitler, to liberate Europe. From the beginning, at 0000 hours, to the end, 24 hours later, the voices of over thirty veterans unravel the battle with recollections, tactical details, and, often, self-effacing humour - but always at the very heart of Goddard's D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny, the message, sixty years later, is clear... lest we forget.
D-Day 1944 (4)
Title | D-Day 1944 (4) PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Ford |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1849087229 |
A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Gold and Juno Beaches Landings Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history. At the heart of the invasion and key to its success were the landings of British 50th Division on Gold Beach and Canadian 3rd Division on Juno Beach. Not only did they provide the vital link between the landings of British 3rd Division on Sword Beach and the Americans to the west on Omaha, they would be crucial to the securing of the beachhead and the drive inland to Bayeux and Caen. In the fourth D-Day volume Ken Ford details the assault that began the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe.
Holding Juno
Title | Holding Juno PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Zuehlke |
Publisher | D & M Publishers |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2009-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1926685954 |
Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland — the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history. But for all the horror endured on June 6 every soldier knew the worst was yet to come. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself. Although battered and bloody, the Canadians had held their ground and made it possible for the slow advance toward Germany and eventual Allied victory to begin. Holding Juno recreates this pivotal battle through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it, with the same dramatic intensity and factual detail that made Juno Beach, in the words of Quill & Quire reviewer Michael Clark, “the defining popular history of Canada’s D-Day battle.”
Juno Beach
Title | Juno Beach PDF eBook |
Author | Rémy Desquesnes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 31 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Courseulles-sur-Mer (France) |
ISBN | 9782737306662 |
Provides a brief history / tour on landing at Juno Beach, detailing special equipment used, plans of attack, and inaccuracies sustained. Concludes with places that can be toured or experienced.