D-Day 1944 (3)

Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

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D-Day 1944 (3)

Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

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At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham as British 3rd Division stormed ashore at Sword Beach. The battle would then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers. In the third of the D-Day volumes Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th Airborne Division and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vital left flank of the invasion.

Table of Contents

Origins of the Battle/Chronology/Opposing Commanders/Opposing Armies/Opposing Plans/The Landings/The Airborne Assault/Sword Beach/Holding and expanding the Beachhead/Aftermath/The Battlefield Today/Bibliography/Index

Product details

Published 25 Jul 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781841763668
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 87 b/w; 15 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 105
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Ken Ford

Illustrator

Howard Gerrard

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