D-Day 1944 (3)

Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

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Description

The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). 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 Jul 25 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781841763668
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 87 b/w; 15 col
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 105
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Ken Ford

Ken Ford was born in Hampshire in 1943. He trained…

Illustrator

Howard Gerrard

Howard Gerrard studied at the Wallasey School of A…

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