Illustrations

Photographs

1. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Casablanca, January 1943

2. The Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, January 1943

3. Winston Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff aboard RMS Queen Mary

4. RMS Queen Mary, converted for war

5. Churchill and Roosevelt at the Trident Conference

6. Joint Planning meeting in Algiers, June 1943

7. Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan, COSSAC

8. Morgan and Maj. Gen. Ray Barker, U.S. Army, deputy COSSAC

9. COSSAC’s July 1943 plan for D-Day

10. The COSSAC teams who carried the plan to Churchill and the JCS

11. “The Whitefish Bay U.S. Navy Exploring Expedition 1943”

12. U.S. Army generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall, June 1943

13. A section of Mainz, Germany, gutted by RAF firebombing, August 1942

14. Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff at the Quadrant Conference

15. The escort carrier USS Bogue (CVE-9), June 1943

16. One of Bogue’s U-boat kills, minutes from its destruction, June 1943

17. VLR B-24 Liberators of the RAF Coastal Command

18. Transport ship USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72) in fast troop convoy UT-5

19. Germany’s Enigma encryption machine

20. U.S. Sigaba encryption machine

21. U.S. Sigsaly voice encryption system

22. Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport plane

23. Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill during the Eureka Conference

24. A field of halftracks in England prior to D-Day

25. Battleship USS Texas (BB-35) in 1943

26. U.S. First or Twenty-ninth Division infantry wade toward Omaha Beach on D-Day

27. Omaha Beach on D+1, June 7, 1944

28. The first atomic bomb, Trinity, moments after detonation on July 16, 1945

29. Trinity fifteen seconds after detonation

Maps

1. Major Allied Conferences, 1943

2. Fast Troop Convoy UT-10, New York to United Kingdom, March 23–April 4, 1944

3. The COSSAC 1943 Overlord Plan and D-Day as Carried Out (Neptune)