Division Commander: A Biography of Major General Norman D. Cota - Hardcover

Miller, Robert A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871524384 ISBN 13: 9780871524386

Publisher: Reprint Co, 1989

Synopsis

"Dutch" Cota was Assistant Division Commander of the 29th Infantry Division, United States Army, for D-Day, the Normandy Landings, 1944. They landed on Omaha Beach. He had also been very involved in the planning of the invasion. The day before the landing, Cota told the 29th Divisional staff: "This is different from any of the other exercises that you've had so far. The little discrepancies that we tried to correct on Slapton Sands are going to be magnified and are going to give way to incidents that you might at first view as chaotic . . . You're going to find confusion. The landing craft aren't going in on schedule and people are going to be landed in the wrong place. Some won't be landed at all . . . We must improvise, carry on, not lose our heads." (Cota was played by Robert Mitchum in the film "The Longest Day"). As Commander of the 28th Infantry Division, Major General Cota was involved in the very bloody Battle of Hurtgen Forest, in later 1944.

Edition details

• Publisher: Reprint Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0871524384
• ISBN 13: 9780871524386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 202