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D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

By S. Zaloga , S. Badsey , Ken Ford(Manufacturer)

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781841763668, 1841763667
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
38 MB (39608634 bytes)
Series
Campaign 105
Pages
96\96
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32
World War 2;Naval Warfare;History;Military;Militar

Description

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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