TY - BOOK AU - Charlie Samuels TI - D-Day: 1944 SN - 9781781210406 U1 - 940.53 SAM N2 - D-Day is a detailed account of the planning and execution of history's greatest amphibious invasion. On June 6, 1944, after years of preparation, Allied paratroopers and glider troops landed in France while a vast fleet put hundreds of thousands more troops ashore on the beaches: Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold, and Juno. The book tells the stories of the landing on each beach and how the landing forces fought to break out of Normandy and push east, toward Germany itself ER -