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OXWICH TO OMAHA American GIs in South Wales by Phil Howells
OXWICH TO OMAHA American GIs in South Wales by Phil Howells
is Published on Amazon to coincide with the 76th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxwich-Omaha-American-South-Wales/dp/B089CSNFSL
All part of what was the biggest amphibious operation in history.
Philip Howells – Author and publisher, 19 June 2020
Philip Howells – Author and publisher, 19 June 2020
The author, originally from Caerphilly, but now lives in Llansadwrn, explains:
'It was tears of reading about the D Day landings, but much of which did not look at the role the South Wales coast and its communities played in the lead up to D Day, that spurred him to shine a light on the important role they played. During the course of researching this chronology it has been a revelation to discover so much about the war time history of the town I grew up in.'
Published on Amazon to coincide with the 76th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings, with a ‘Foreword’ by Dame Shân Legge-Bourke DCVO, this detailed, well researched, fascinating narrative, not covered in one volume before, combines Operations BOLERO, OVERLORD and its naval off-shoot NEPTUNE –
The Invasion of Northern France, but seen from a South Wales perspective.
The Invasion of Northern France, but seen from a South Wales perspective.
Facts and figures, convoys and the ships involved, camp locations, exercises, planning, concentration,
marshalling, embarkation and the units involved. Where did they come from, where did they then go?
SOUTH WALES D-DAY ROLE REVEALED 76 YEARS ON
SOUTH WALES D-DAY ROLE REVEALED 76 YEARS ON
For exactly twelve months leading up to D-Day on the Sixth of June, 143,870 GI’s and USN CB’s landed in South Wales during Operation Bolero.
Army and Navy Engineers built camps, hospitals, depots and maintenance bases, others trained on beaches and ranges for the Invasion. Many would often debark their troopships, entrain on GWR or LMS trains and be away to their camps in the UK..
Huge amounts of cargo - 4,508,836 tons of tanks, guns, ammunition, boxed vehicles and gliders, stores and locomotives - were unloaded at the Bristol Channel Ports of Swansea, Barry, Cardiff, Newport and Avonmouth.
Finally 42,000 GI’s would depart those Welsh ports, leaving behind a memory or friendship, sometimes a bride. This was the Bristol Channel Pre Loaded Build-Up Force, bound for Normandy 76 years ago, in 1944.
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