D-Day 1944 Ford Ken
D-Day 1944 Ford Ken The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. At…
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D-Day 1944 Ford Ken
The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. 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.
Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham as British 3rd Division stormed ashore at Sword Beach. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. The battle would then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers.
In the third of the D-Day volumes Ken Ford de