Operation Overlord - Softcover

Patterson, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1450018084 ISBN 13: 9781450018081

Publisher: Xlibris, 2010

Synopsis

Book Description Pat was a teenage boy who came of age during the tumultuous times of World War II He entered the Army during his eighteenth year as a voluntary inductee Basic training was administered at Ft Bragg N C After basic training he was scheduled to be shipped to the South Pacific as a member of a pack artillery unit but an untimely bout of the flu forced a change in his assignment He was placed in a replacement pool a pool of young soldiers who would step into the vacancies caused by the inevitable casualties that would occur during the planned invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord Pat shipped over seas in a small wooden vessel that once carried fruit from South America to Boston It had been requisitioned to carry troops to Great Britain It was a very large convoy that included Pats ship The speed of the crossing was no greater than the speed of the slowest vessel in the fleet The crossing took weeks in a constant attempt to evade German U Boats by an erratic course across the Atlantic The port of debarkation was Liverpool England A troop train transported the soldiers from there to a military establishment in Cardiff Wales Here the soldiers continued to train and bide their time waiting for the inevitable invasion of Europe Soon the soldiers were transported to the Channel Coast where they remained on standby alert for the invasion to commence D Day June 6 1944 arrived Operation Overlord was unleashed The gruesome casualties of Omaha Beach were endured and the beach head prevailed Six days after D Day the contingent of replacements that included Pat landed on Omaha Beach and fulfilled the purpose of their existence They replaced the soldiers that had been killed or wounded in the preceding six days Pat was assigned to the first howitzer gun crew of A Battery 15th Field Artillery Battalion 2nd Infantry Division The Fifteenth Battalion was the artillery support and a part of the 9th Combat Team 9th CBT that

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1450018084
• ISBN 13: 9781450018081
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80