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.
Osprey Campaign 105 - D-day 1944 (3) Sword Beach & The British Airborne landings
Издательство: Osprey
Author: Ken Ford
Illustrator: Howard Gerrard
Год издания: July 2002
Cтраниц: 96 pages
ISBN: 9781841763668
Язык: english
Формат: PDF - rar
Размер: 37.7 mb
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