D-day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & The British Airborne landings
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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 amere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. Asmall group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridgewithin minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe hadbegun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistrehamas British 3rd Division stormed ashore at Sword Beach. The battle wouldthen begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers. In the third ofthe D-Day volumes Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th AirborneDivision and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vitalleft flank of the invasion.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Steven J. Zaloga
- Language
- English
- Series
- Campaign
- ISBN
- 9781841763668
- Release date
- 2002
- Volume
- 105
