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D-Day 1944 - Sword Beach & The British Airborne Landings

By: Osprey

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Praeger Illustrated Military History Series

Last Stocked on 2/1/2022

Product Info

Title
D-Day 1944 - Sword Beach & The British Airborne Landings
Publisher
Category
Author
Ken Ford
Publish Year
2004
Pages
96
Dimensions
7.5x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147834253
Type
Hardcover

Description

At 1600 hrs on June 6, 1944, a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Benouville 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. 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.