Firing for effect: the use of field artillery in the Normandy Campaign

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dc.contributor.advisorDenning, Robert
dc.contributor.authorLloyd, David F.
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-16T19:32:19Z
dc.date.available2019-06-16T19:32:19Z
dc.date.issued2018-09
dc.description.abstractUnlike today’s global political situation, World War II was a time of great cooperation between nations, the Allies that encountered and defeated the Axis powers in Europe and the Japanese in the Pacific basin. This cooperation extended down to the battlefield, where individual types of military units operated in concert with each other to present an integrated front to their adversaries. Field artillery units represented one component of this highly-integrated battlefield, contributing heavily to Allied victories around the globe. Nowhere is the use of field artillery better demonstrated than during Operation OVERLORD, the campaign to invade Northern Europe in June of 1944. Historians have however generally ignored the use of field artillery during Operation OVERLORD, instead understandably choosing to concentrate on the D-Day Allied landings on the Normandy beaches, an operation that represents one of the most dramatic days in the history of modern warfare. Those historians that do address the following Normandy Campaign (the Campaign) to gain an Allied foothold in Northern Europe address the campaign more from the perspective of the invading Allied infantry, while largely ignoring the contribution made by the field artillery. This work will examine in detail the use of field artillery during Operation OVERLORD in an effort to gauge the contribution that artillery made to the overall Campaign. By using secondary sources to discuss the planning and execution of the Operation, it will provide the reader with an understanding of how OVERLORD came into existence, how it was planned and how the Campaign unfolded. Then, by using archival primary-source material, compiled contemporaneously by the field artillery units involved in the Campaign, it will demonstrate that the use of field artillery was vital to the Allied victory in Northern France in June of 1944. (Author abstract)en_US
dc.description.degreeMaster Artsen_US
dc.description.programHistoryen_US
dc.description.schoolCollege of Online and Continuing Educationen_US
dc.digSpecsPDF/A-1ben_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/3523
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSouthern New Hampshire Universityen_US
dc.relation.requiresAdobe Acrobat Readeren_US
dc.rightsAuthor retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibiteden_US
dc.rightsHolderLloyd, David F.
dc.subject.lcshSouthern New Hampshire University -- Theses (History)en_US
dc.subject.otherhistoryen_US
dc.subject.othermilitary historyen_US
dc.subject.othermilitary studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherartilleryen_US
dc.subject.otherNormandy (FR)en_US
dc.subject.otherOperation Overlorden_US
dc.subject.otherwarfareen_US
dc.subject.otherWorld War IIen_US
dc.titleFiring for effect: the use of field artillery in the Normandy Campaignen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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