D-Day 1944 Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
Campaign (Book 105)
Author:
Howard Gerrard, Ken Ford
ISBN:
9781849087216
Related ISBNs:
9781841763668
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
96
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2022-10-30
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2002
Copyright by:
Osprey Publishing 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction