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On April 28, 1944, while on a D-day rehearsal in the English Channel, Convoy T-4 was attacked by German E-boats, losing hundreds of lives. In this laborious work, Lewis (Paperchase, 1982) argues that the Allied Command tried to cover up the deadly series of mistakes and lack of cooperation between military forces that led to the disaster. The details of the tragedy--some of which were still coming to light in the late 1980's--were so confused and obscured that for five years they were unknown even to Gen. Omar Bradley, Commander of the U.S. Army in Northwestern Europe. Earlier exercises in…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 1990Prentice Hall Press · 307 pages · 9780131277960
Allied ForcesAmphibious operationsBritish Naval operationsGerman Naval operationsHistoryManeuversMilitary maneuversNaval operations, British