Destination D-day: preparations for the invasion of North-West Europe 1944
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures
ix
Preface
xii
Acknowledgements
xiv
1
Introduction
15
Operations Roundup and Overlord
16
Administration
39
Research and development
43
Deception activities
48
2
Sea support
52
Headquarters Ships and Escort Duties
55
Civilians in Sea-Going Tugs
66
Landing Craft
69
The run-up to D-Day
78
Operation Gambit
83
3
Land activities
91
Beach Reconnaissance
91
Duplex Drive tanks/waterproofing
97
Resistance activities/strategic use of
SAS
troops
108
4
Air support
113
Intelligence gathering and threat analysis
113
RAF Directives from SHAEF
117
Air Defence Measures
122
Supporting operations
124
Second Tactical Air Force
124
Operation Mallard
127
Operation Titanic
130
viii Destination D-Day
5
Manoeuvres
134
Exercise
Anchor
134
Exercise Smash
137
Exercise
Tiger
145
Exercise Jantzen
147
Deception
Manoeuvres
in Scotland
150
6
Beach
infrastructure
and training
161
Beach
Group
set up and
infrastructure
161
Beach
Group
training
170
7
79th Armoured
Division (Hobart s
Funnies)
175
Major General
Hobart 175
79th Armoured
Division
185
8 PLUTO 198
Operation PLUTO 198
Cable
Laying
215
9
Mulberry Harbour
224
Initial correspondence
224
Prototype construction and trials
231
Construction
237
10
The aftermath
244
79th Armoured Division
244
101
Beach Sub Area
250
Mulberry Harbours
254
PLUTO
257
Appendices
259
I Southern Command Operating Instructions
259
11 Escort Instructions
272
III Cargo Ship Charter
286
IV Report on Operation Gambit
298
V The History of the Air Section
305
VI Operation PLUTO
313
Notes
316
Bibliography
321
Index
323
List of Figures
1.1
Norfolk House. (Author s photograph)
16
1.2
One of the Norfolk House plaques. (Author s photograph)
17
1.3
The administrative planning for Operation Roundup. (National
20
Archives CAB
84/92)
1.4
The plan for the Operation Overlord Conference
1943.
(National
24
Archives AIR
20/5229)
1.5
Operation Overlord organisation chart. (Author s sketch)
28
1.6
The Neck. (Author s photograph)
36
1.7
Supreme Headquarters, AEF. (National Archives WO
219/5331) 38
1.8
The Passive Air Defence Organisation. (National Archives WO
39
199/3050)
1.9
Window. (Author s photograph)
46
2.1
Escort diagram created
5
March
1944.
(National Archives ADM
59
179/455)
2.2
Recommended positions. (National Archives ADM
179/455) 59
2.3
Eastern Task Force
-
Assault Group Captains.
63
2.4
Force G: Force Commander.
65
2.5
Merchant tugs flying the British flag. (National Archives MT
68
59/2184)
2.6
Tugs flying the Netherlands flag. (National Archives MT
59/2184) 68
2.7
Partial of the list of coasters. (National Archives MT
59/2186) 79
2.8
Partial list of oil tankers. (National Archives MT
59/2186) 80
2.9
Partial list of M.T. ships. (National Archives MT
59/2186) 81
2.10
Troop ships. (National Archives MT
59/2186) 82
2.11
Х
-Craft performance data.
83
2.12
The X24 submarine. (Author s photograph)
90
2.13
An internal view of the X24. (Author s photograph)
90
3.1
A Swimming or DD Tank. (Author s photograph)
98
3.2
Proposed Sherman DD training programme.
100
ix
к
Destination D
-Day
3.3
Time and motion feedback.
105
3.4
Provision of freshwater dips
—
assault formations. (National
107
Archives WO
205/372)
4.1
The Air Section of Bletchley Park. (National Archives HW
20/545) 114
4.2
Allocation of aircraft. (National Archives WO
205/898) 129
4.3
Part of a Hamilcar glider. (Author s photograph)
129
4.4
A Typhoon IB MN235 with D-Day markings. (Author s
130
photograph)
5.1
First part of the landing tables for
21
February
1944.
(National
136
Archives WO
199/2737)
5.2
The final part of the landing tables for
26
February
1944.
(National
137
Archives WO
199/2737)
5.3
Studland Bay. (Author s photograph)
138
5.4
Fort Henry. (Author s photograph)
138
5.5
Studland Bay memorial. (Author s photograph)
139
5.6
Outline of area needed for manoeuvres. (National Archives WO
145
199/2320)
5.7
Recovered US Sherman DD Tank. (Author s collection)
146
5.8
The US Army memorial to the local population. (Author s
147
photograph)
5.9
Re-grouping.
158
6.1
The beach group chain of command. (National Archives WO
165
32/10797)
6.2
A DUKW
2013.
(Author s photograph)
173
6.3
Runnels near Instow. (Author s photograph)
174
7.1
Part of Major-General Hobart s military career. (World War II
182
Unit Histories
бе
Officers, British Army Officers
(1939-1945)
<http://
www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_H02.html#Hobart_
PCS> (Accessed October
2013)
and King s College London, Liddell
Hart Military Archives <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/liddell/
lil51100.htm>. (Accessed October
2013))
7.2
Hobart s New Model Army suggestion. (National Archives WO
188
216/64)
7.3
The 79th Armoured Division motif. (Author s photograph)
190
7.4
CRAB or FLAIL tank. (Author s photograph)
191
7.5
A Crocodile flame thrower. (Author s photograph)
191
8.1
Number of
4Уг
gallon storage containers for Landing Craft only.
202
(National Archives ADM
1/15388)
8.2
Estimated number of
Jerrycans
needed for the first
90
days after
203
D-Day.
8.3
Number of estimated barrels needed in the first
90
days following
203
D-Day.
List of Figures
xi
8.4
Provisional allocation of pipe lines.
204
8.5
A section of PLUTO. (Author s photograph)
213
8.6
Plaque denoting the
HAIS
(Hartley-Anglo-Ira
nian-
Siemens) entry
213
into the sea. (Author s photograph)
8.7
A section of the
HAIS
BAMBI
pipe. (Author s photograph)
214
8.8
The
HAIS
coupling device. (Author s photograph)
215
8.9
A partial movement list.
220
9.1
The commemorative plaque at Garlieston. (Author s photograph)
232
9.2
The information board detailing some of the experiments. (Author s
232
photograph)
9.3
Swiss Roll trials. (National Archives ADM
116/5245) 236
9.4
Swiss Roll trial
5
settlement data. (National Archives ADM
236
116/5245)
9.5
Workers involved in the first stage of the second Phoenix Project.
239
(National Archives
AVIA
22/295)
9.6
A small number of construction sites using Anderson Shelters.
240
(National Archives ADM
116/5245)
9.7
A notice board in Langstone Harbour, Portsmouth. (Author s
241
photograph)
9.8
The remains of a Phoenix caisson in Langstone Harbour. (Author s
241
photograph)
10.1
A Churchill Mark III AVRE tank. (Author s photograph)
249
10.2
Number of patients attending the consulting and treatment rooms.
253
10.3
Full list of Phoenix Fourth Project sites and contractors. (National
255
Archives
AVIA
22/295)
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