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D-Day 1944. Ken Ford ; illustrated by Howard Gerrard.
- Title
- D-Day 1944. 3, Sword Beach & British airborne landing / Ken Ford ; illustrated by Howard Gerrard.
- Author
- Ford, Ken, 1943-
- Publication
- Oxford : Osprey, 2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Gerrard, Howard
- Description
- 96 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orme 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 Ouitreham as British 3rd Division swept ashore at Sword Beach. The battle would then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers... [Here], Ken Ford details the assault of British 6th Airborne Division and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vital left flank of the invasion."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Campaign ; 105
- Uniform Title
- Campaign (Osprey Publishing) 105.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography.
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Origins of the battle (The lessons of Dieppe ; Caen the key) -- Chronology -- Opposing commanders (Allied commanders ; German commanders) -- Opposing armies (The British army ; The German army) -- Opposing plans -- The landings: the airborne assault (The capture of the Orne bridges ; The capture of the Merville battery ; The destruction of bridges over the River Dives ; German reaction to the airborne landings) -- The landings: Sword Beach (The run-in to the beaches ; The German reaction to the landings ; Counter-attack by German 21st Panzer Division) -- Holding and expanding the bridgehead (21st and 12th SS Panzer counter-attack) -- Aftermath -- The battlefield today -- Order of battle.
- ISBN
- 1841763667
- OCLC
- 49240104
- SCSB-10583688
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library