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Sword Beach was the codename of one of the five main landing beaches in Operation Neptune, the initial assault phase of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. Operation Overlord was the code name for the invasion of northwest Europe during World War II by Allied forces Events 1508 - Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Stretching 8 km from Ouistreham to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer it was the furthest east of the landing points and around 15 km from Caen. Ouistreham is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region of France. Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer is a commune in the department of Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France. Caen (kɑ̃ is a commune in northwestern France. It is the Prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the The landing site was divided into four zones - Oboe, Peter, Queen and Roger (west-east). The German defences consisted of beach obstacles, anti-tank ditches, mines, machineguns and mortars at the beaches and across the River Orne at Merville there were heavy guns. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Orne is a River in Normandy, within northwestern France. It discharges into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham. Merville-Franceville-Plage is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France The defending troops belonged to the German 716th Static Infantry Division and could call on the support of the nearby 21st Panzer division. The 716th Static Infantry Division was raised in May 1941 for occupation duties in France The 21st Panzer Division was a German Armoured division best known for its role in the battles of the North African Campaign from 1941 - 1943 during The landing forces were the British I Corps, comprising British 3rd Infantry Division and the 27th Armoured Brigade. Landing is a military operation aimed at a bringing the landing force ( landing troops) to a shore or to land with the purpose of power projection ashore/landside The I Corps was a military formation, specifically a field corps headquarters of the British Army The British 3rd Infantry Division, known at various times as the Iron Division, 3rd (Iron Division or as Iron Sides, was originally formed in 1809 The 27th Armoured Brigade was a Second World War British Army formation
The landing was concentrated in the Queen sector of the beach Hermanville-sur-Mer. Hermanville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France. The key objective was to quickly reach and capture the key town of Caen and the nearby Carpiquet aerodrome to the west. Caen (kɑ̃ is a commune in northwestern France. It is the Prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Carpiquet is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region of France. Landings began at 0725 when the 3rd Division landed in Peter and Queen. Attached Commando units were tasked with seizing the bridges on the Orne River and the Caen Canal, linking up with paratroops of the 6th Airborne Division who were holding the bridges and had earlier destroyed the batteries at Merville. In Military science, the term commando can refer to an individual a Military unit, or a raiding style of military operation. Canal de Caen à la Mer ( "Canal from Caen to the sea" also called the "Caen Canal") is a small Canal in the department (préfecture Resistance on the beach was weak, within 45 minutes the fighting had been pushed inland and on the east flank the Commando units had reached the Orne and the paratroopers by midday. The British had been unable to link up with the Canadian forces to the west until much later in the day. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The only significant German counter-attacks of the entire landing came from 1600 into this area. In two attacks the 21st Panzer Division pushed all the way from near Caen to the beach between Lion-sur-Mer and Luc-sur-Mer and were only fully neutralized by late evening. Luc-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France. 54 German tanks were destroyed or disabled out of 98.
The day ended with 28,845 British troops ashore and only 630 casualties. However Caen had not been reached and in the face of stiffening resistance the assault had stalled 6 km short of the town. British forces had been bogged down on the beaches by the sheer volume of men and equipment being unloaded.
The beaches of D-Day are still known by their invasion codenames today.
Sources
Reynolds, Michael (2003). Eagles and Bulldogs in Normandy 1944. Casemate, Havertown, PA, USA, 230 pp. A casemate, sometimes rendered casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired originally a vaulted chamber in a Fortress. ISBN 1-86227-201-8.
Famous names on the beach
- Lord Lovat led his Commando unit to Pegasus Bridge. Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser 15th Lord Lovat DSO, MC, TD ( 9 July 1911 - 16 March 1995) was "Rolling bascule bridge" redirects here For other types of bridge referred to as "rolling" see Rolling bridge.
External links
- http://www.dday.co.uk/page30.html
- Sword Beach United Kingdom Ministry of Defence website. The Ministry of Defence ( MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters
- D-Day : Etat des Lieux : Sword Beach
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