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

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Campaign Series - World War II - Western Front

MSRP old price: $24.00


Product Info

Title
D-Day 1944 (3) - Sword Beach & The British Airborne Landings
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
2002
Pages
96
Dimensions
7.5x9.75x.375"
NKG Part #
1237655997
MFG. Part #
OSPCAM105
Type
Softcover
Series
CAM105

Description

At 0016 hrs on 6 June 1944, a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at BĂ©nouville 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.