Smashing Hitler's Guns

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Author's Note
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The Guns of Pointe-du-Hoc
Chapter 2: The Coastal Gun Threat
Chapter 3: "Hard Men for Dirty Work"
Chapter 4: Refining the Ranger Plan
Chapter 5: Spying on Pointe-du-Hoc: The Intelligence Battle
Chapter 6: Softening Pointe-du-Hoc
Chapter 7: Obliteration
Chapter 8: Assault Group O-4
Chapter 9: Carnage on Charlie Beach
Chapter 10: The Stormy Voyage to Pointe-du-Hoc
Chapter 11: Force A Strikes Pointe-du-Hoc
Chapter 12: Spiking the Guns
Chapter 13: The Germans Strike Back
Chapter 14: Night Attack
Chapter 15: Ranger Force C on Dog Green Beach
Chapter 16: The Crazy March on D+1
Chapter 17: Relief from the Sea
Chapter 18: Final Mission: The Maisy Gun Batteries
Chapter 19: Battle Analysis

Afterword: The Rangers in Cinema
Appendix A: Ranger Organization, Equipment, and Combat Awards
Appendix B: The Pointe-du-Hoc Guns: Doctrine and Technology
Appendix C: Naval Fire Support for the Rangers
Appendix D: The Guns of Maisy
Endnotes
Further Reading
Glossary
Index

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• Batalhas e campanhas
• Forças terrestres e guerra
• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Forças especiais e de elite

Normandy; Eisenhower; Omaha Beach; Atlantic Wall; Overlord; US special forces; 2nd Battalion; 5th Battalion; Maisy battery; La Martiniere; Grandcamp; James Earl Rudder; Allied intelligence; Pointe du Hoe; German bunkers; prisoners of war; first-hand accounts; maps