This page includes some of the maps used in the book.  Understanding the Normandy terrain and distances is key to seeing the strategic opportunity that an amphibious first wave attack force using LVTs would have provided to the Allied invasion force on D-Day June 6, 1944.
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The range of Allied fighter planes
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Locations of the Allied invasion forces massing for D-Day. Dark orange are first wave forces.
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Normandy France showing the five D-Day invasion beaches.
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Map of the Bocage (hedgerow) countryside in France
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Cotentin peninsula showing Utah Beach and the extensive waterways across the peninsula
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More detail of the base of the Cotentin peninsula west of Utah Beach, showing the waterways.
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Detail of Utah Beach and extensive waterways.
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Southern part of Cotentin peninsula showing St Lo and other waterways.