National Geographic History - 05.2019 - 06.2019
78 MAY/JUNE 2019 took place. Allied staff officers led by Lt. Gen. Frederick Morgan debated where to pierce the Atlantic Wall, G ...
FIRST LT. WALLACE C. STROBEL AND THE PARATROOPERS OF THE U.S. 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION LISTEN TO GENERAL EISENHOWER BEFORE THE DE ...
80 MAY/JUNE 2019 GOING ASHORE War photographer Robert Capa accompanied the first wave of troops as they faced enemy fire (above) ...
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82 MAY/JUNE 2019 Overlord and Bodyguard GENERAL PATTON (LEFT) POSED AS FUSAG’S CHIEF UNTIL HE TOOK CHARGE OF A REAL ARMY IN FRAN ...
PLANS AND DECOYS The Overlord chart (above) forecasts the situation two days after Allied forces landed, while a map of Utah Bea ...
84 MAY/JUNE 2019 AMERICAN GUNNERS FIRING AN M3 105-MM LIGHT HOWITZER NEAR UTAH BEACH U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES SUPPLY LINE Landing ...
Sainte-Adresse Dozulé Villedieu-les-Poêles Martinvast Brettville-sur-Laize Trun Tourlaville St.-Sauveur-Lendelin Livarot Montmar ...
86 MAY/JUNE 2019 HEDGED IN American troops advance slowly through the lanes of Normandy in summer 1944 (above). The thick, high ...
IN MEMORIAM Overlooking the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, a memorial honors the 627 men of the U.S. First Infantry D ...
KENNETH WINTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF. RENDELL, WORLD WAR II COLT PISTOL IN A SHOULDER HOLSTER USED BY JEDBURGH AGENTS Fueling French ...
SPY GEAR Tools and arms were supplied to agents or French Resistance fighters known as the maquis (center) pictured near Paris i ...
DISCOVERIES S outheast of the modern Egyptian city of Zagazig are the red granite ruins of a city sa- cred to the followers of t ...
to Bubastis, “where they hold festival celebrating sacrifices, and more wine is consumed upon that festival than during the whol ...
DISCOVERIES Precious Metals THESE BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS were found in 1906 near the Temple of Bastet in Tell Basta, the excavation s ...
ILLUMINATED COLD-CAST BRONZE SCULPTURE bradfordexchange.com/26518 With arms open wide and reaching toward the heavens, the Lord ...
DISCOVERIES Naville, it turned out, was right. Both his study, and subsequent others, have re- vealed that the shrine (which inc ...
M illions of people collect the American Eagle Silver Dollar. In fact, it’s been the country’s most popular Silver Dollar for ov ...
CELEBRATIONS of military victories, called triumphs, were a Roman commander’s ultimate goal. Piqued that his rival Pompey had on ...
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