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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; 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 swept ashore at Sword Beach. The battle would then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers. In the third of four D-Day volumes, Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th Airborne Division and the British landings in Sword Beach that secured the vital left flank of the invasion.

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940.542 FOR b

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United Kingdom : Osprey Publishing., 2010

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English

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9781112223390

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940.542

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History of World War II

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