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ABC conference,
13
–
16
,
27

ABDA command,
41
–
42

Adams, Godfrey,
137

aerial bombing of invasion beaches,
257
–
59
,
266
–
67

airborne forces,
250

Aitken, Max.
See
Beaverbrook, Lord

Alanbrooke, Viscount.
See
Brooke, Alan

Alexander, Harold,
172

Algiers, Allied landings at,
88
–
89

Altmark
(German supply ship),
187

American soldiers in Britain,
122
–
45
,
185

and British women,
136
–
38

housing,
130
–
32
map,
132

numbers (table),
124

and race relations,
137
–
39

training of,
195
–
218

Ancon
(USN command ship),
284
,
286
–
87

ANCXF.
See
Ramsay, Bertram Home

Anglo-American partnership,
8
–
12
,
13
–
16

differing cultural views of,
54
–
56
,
73
–
75
,
101
–
2
,
117
–
18
,
130
,
133
,
136
,
142
–
45
,
190
–
91
,
211
,
218
,
229
,
311
,
351

dispute over Anvil,
179
–
84

Gymnast vs. Sledgehammer,
67
–
70

See also
individual conferences
: ABC;

Arcadia; Argentia; Casablanca;

Quadrant; Tehran; Trident

anti-aircraft fire

American,
201
,
313

German,
265

Anvil (invasion of southern France),
178
–
84

Anzio landings,
164
–
65
,
181
map,
116

Appledore,
140
,
195
,
198

Arcadia conference,
34
–
46

Area Zebra,
234
,
248
–
49

Argentia conference,
19
–
23

Arkansas
(USN battleship),
235

in attack on Cherbourg,
340
,
342
,
344
–
47

off Normandy beaches,
263
–
64

Arnold, Henry A. “Hap,”
22
,
168

and strategic bombing,
36

Arnold, James E.,
144
,
239
,
286

artificial harbors.
See
Mulberry

Atlantic Charter,
22
–
23
,
44

Augusta
(USN cruiser)

at Argentia,
20
–
23

described,
285

in Exercise Tiger,
219

in Neptune,
246
,
284
–
85

in Torch,
83

Avalanche (invasion of Italy),
117
map,
116

Avonmouth,
128

AVRE (Assault Vehicle, Royal Engineers),
208

Azalea
(RN corvette),
212
,
215

Backhouse, Roger,
174
–
75

Badoglio, Pietro,
115

Bagration, Operation,
353

Baker, Charles,
346

Baldwin
(USN destroyer),
298

Balkoski, Joseph,
266

Barneville-sur-Mer,
336

Barth, Armond,
228

Barton
(USN destroyer),
345

Barton, Raymond “Tubby,”
226

and Cherbourg,
348

and the Normandy landings,
284

Battery Hamburg (at Cherbourg),
340
–
43
,
344
,
347

Battle of the Atlantic,
36
,
55
,
82

battle fatigue,
329
–
30

Bayfield
(USN command ship),
211
,
230

near miss of,
313
–
14

off the Normandy beaches,
284
,
330

beach masters,
224
,
276
,
297
,
310
,
315
–
16

Beardall, John R.,
21

Beaver.
See
Exercise Beaver

Beaverbrook, Lord,
27
–
28
,
30
–
31
,
31n

at Arcadia conference,
37
–
40
,
42
–
43

Beer, Robert,
295
,
301

Belfast
(RN cruiser),
232
,
264

Bellona
(RN light cruiser),
264

Bernadou
(USN destroyer),
92

Bernal, J. D.,
206

Bieri, Bernhard,
193

Bingham, Sidney,
301

Bischoff, Karl,
361

Bismarck
(German battleship),
20

Bolero (plan for 1943 invasion),
52
–
54
,
59
,
70

bombardons,
320
,
326

bombing of beaches.
See
aerial bombing

Boyd, Clarence,
296

Black Prince
(RN cruiser),
259

Bradley, Omar,
185
,
202n
,
209
,
211
,
340
–
42

concern for ammunition,
309
,
310
–
11
,
327

and Omaha Beach,
284
–
85
,
289
,
299
–
300
,
302
,
305
,
335

Britannia
(RN training ship),
174

Britannia Royal Naval College,
223
–
24

Broke
(RN destroyer),
88
–
89

Brooke, Alan,
xvii
,
30
,
37
,
146

at Casablanca conference,
99
–
104

characterized,
57
–
58
,
57n
,
66

death of,
358

opposes Anvil,
182
–
84

postwar,
358

relations with Churchill,
103
,
121

relations with George Marshall,
48
,
57
–
59
,
64
–
65
,
101
–
4
,
119
–
20
,
182
–
84

at Trident conference,
111

Bryant, Carleton F.,
235
,
263
,
290
,
299

in attack on Cherbourg,
340
,
343
,
345
–
46
,
347
–
48

Bulge, Battle of,
356
–
57

Bulkeley, John,
244
,
304
,
349

Bulolo
(RN command ship),
312

Butcher, Harry,
74
,
283

Butler
(USN destroyer),
298

Byrnes, James (Jimmy),
165

Caen, battle for,
282
,
335
,
354

Cairo conference,
169
–
70

Capa, Robert,
xiii

Carentan,
335
–
36

Carmick
(USN destroyer),
291
,
295
,
298
,
301

Casablanca

Allied conference at,
98
–
104

Allied landings near,
89

Centurion
(RN dreadnought),
320
,
322

Chaney, James,
71
–
72
,
137

Cherbourg,
206
,
218
,
318

aerial bombing of,
338

campaign for,
334
–
39
,
348
–
50
, (map,
337
)

capture of,
348
–
49

damage to,
350

described,
339

naval attack on,
339
–
48
(map,
341
)

Chiang Kai-shek,
51
,
169

Chiefs of Staff (British),
181

Churchill, John,
264