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Found 3 from your keywords: author="Ford, Ken"
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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; D-Day 1944 (3) Sword Beach & the British Airborne la…
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Ford, Ken

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 swept ashore at Sword Beach. The…

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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Falaise 1944 Death of an Army
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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Caen 1944 Montgomery's Break-out Attempt
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One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen. General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard for the Allied breakout, but so did the Germans and the city did not fall. It took three major offensives and more than 30 bloody days of struggle to finally take Caen. In the process the city was controversially dev…

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