D-Day 1944 (3) : Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings
by
Ken Ford
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Campaign
ISBN-10
1841763667
ISBN-13
9781841763668
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Osprey Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 25th, 2002
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
308 grams
Dimensions
24.70 x 18.50 x 0.80 cms
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During the Allied landings in Normandy, Sword Beach was the responsibility of the British 3rd Division. This text looks at how congestion on the Beach allowed the German forces time to react, preventing Caen from being taken on the first day, where much blood was shed before it finally fell.
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.
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