D-Day: The First 72 Hours Caroline Polachek worked as a correspondent in

worked as a correspondent in Paris and wrote several nonfiction books and novels

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D-Day: The First 72 Hours Caroline Polachek worked as a correspondent inA mythbusting, hour by hour account of the first 72 hours of the D Day invasion of France. The Allied invasion of occupied France began with the delivery of three airborne and six infantry divisions onto a 60 mile stretch of the Normandy coast. Accomplishing this involved over 1,200 transport aircraft, 450 gliders, 325 assorted warships and over 4,000 landing vessels. Operation Overlord, as the invasion was code named, remains the largest amphibious