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Juno Beach Canadian 3rd Infantry Division

By Tim Saunders

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Year
2004
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
42 MB (44056063 bytes)
Series
Battleground Europe
Pages
\588
Time added
2016-10-12 13:00:55

Description

By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitlers vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and mines. Leading the attack were the 3rd Canadian Division, supported by the specialist assault tanks of the 79th Armoured Division (Hobarts Funnies). Despite careful planning, poor D-Day weather led to a piecemeal landing and heroic individual battles in the streets of the seaside towns.

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