Table of Contents
Origins of the Battle 5
Chronology 10
Opposing Commanders 12
Allied commanders for Operation Neptune
German Kriegsmarine commanders
Opposing Forces 18
Allied fortes
German forces
Opposing Plans
Allied plans
German plans
Assembling the Invasion Fleet 36
Building the ships
The Bombardment Force
The Mulberry harbours
The Gooseberry breakwaters
Pipe Line Under the Ocean (PLUTO)
Protecting the Neptune armada
Operation Neptune 51
The sea passage
Assault landings - Force U
Assault landings - Force O
Assault landings - Force G
Assault landings ? Force J
Assault landings - Force S
Situation at the end of D-Day
The build-up
Operation Neptune After D-Day 84
The great gale
German naval reaction to the invasion
Pluto
Capture of the port of Cherbourg
The Battlefield Today 92
Bibliography and Further Reading 94
Index 95