"It's our history"

With mini guides, discover the past

that made the present.

Whether you are visiting a battlefield or just interested in learning more from the comfort of your own home, mini-guides offer a fresh, new and completely unprecedented visual feast of information, photographs, graphics, maps, uniforms and equipment-all in full color. Each mini-guide concludes with practical information including suggested itineraries for touring the battlefields as well as monuments, museums and other related sites you can visit.

ARMOR IN NORMANDY

The Americans

In 1944 the US armored divisions were divided into two types, heavy armor and light armor.

They were formed into one of three Combat Commands (CCA and CCB and a reserve - CCR) which comprised, in addition to the tanks, accompanying infantry troops, motorized artillery and engineers. This composition, with its varying elements, gave the Americans a great deal of flexibility in the way their armored forces were deployed and was at variance with the more conventional British doctrine.

Continuing the glorious tradition of cavalry raids of the past, these units acted as the spearhead of the American forces, and played a vital role in the liberation of Normandy.

All the principal weapon systems are shown here in detail and in full color