Ebook: D Minus 1: The Intelligence Handbook on Allied Airborne Forces in Normandy

At airfields all across Southern England plane engines roar to life. The first, heavily laden aircraft lumber down the runway and into the air. These highly skilled soldiers are trained to drop by parachute and glider deep behind enemy lines. As the commander of an airborne company you have been specially selected because of your leadership ability and initiative. You will be leading your men into a battle where you know you will be isolated, surrounded and fighting a larger, more heavily equipped and well supported enemy force. To be victorious they will need all of your skill, aggression and daring to make the best use of the limited resources. Inside D minus 1 you will find - Histories of he British 6th and the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions.- Complete organisations for British Parachute and Airlanding Companies, and US Parachute Rifle and Glider Rifle Companies. It includes all Combat, Weapons, Support and Divisional Support options, no additional handbook is required to field any of these airborne forces.- Exploits and Warrior rules for British Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Pine-Coffin and US Lieutenant Turner Turnbull. Pine-Coffin commanded the 7th Parachute Battalion, 6th Airborne Division, and co-ordinated the defence of the bridges across the River Orne and Caen Canal after his unit dropped to re-enforce the glider borne force who had taken the bridges.- New airborne assault rules including rules for pathfinders, parachute landing and coup-de-main glider assaults.- New airborne mission: Seize and Hold. Seize and Hold represents the Allied Airborne forces forming up after landing and making for their objective.- Extensive uniform painting guides covering the troops of the Allied airborne divisions.- And of course inspirational colour photographs of painted Battlefront Miniatures, colour and back and white artwork, and historic black and white photographs of the real thing.