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  2. Gold Beach - Wikipedia

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    The D-Day Landing on Gold Beach: 6 June 1944. London; New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4411-3817-0. Ryan, Cornelius (1959). The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. New York: Simon & Schuster. OCLC 1175409. Theses. Holborn, Andrew (2010). The 56th Infantry Brigade and D-day: An Independent Infantry Brigade and the Campaign in North-West Europe 1944 ...

  3. Sword Beach - Wikipedia

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    [28] 6th Beach Group was deployed to assist the troops and landing craft landing on Sword and to develop the beach maintenance area. The 3rd Infantry Division was ordered to advance on Caen, 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from Sword, [ 29 ] with the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division advancing on its western flank to secure Carpiquet airfield, 11 miles (18 km ...

  4. 6th Beach Group - Wikipedia

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    The No. 6 Beach Group was a unit of the British Army during the Second World War. It was responsible for organising the units landing on Sword in the Normandy landings on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The Beach Group was tasked with establishing dumps of equipment and supplies including ammunition, petrol and vehicles.

  5. Omaha Beach - Wikipedia

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    The foothold gained on D-Day at Omaha, itself two isolated pockets, was the most tenuous across all the D-Day beaches. With the original objective yet to be achieved, the priority for the Allies was to link up all the Normandy beachheads. [107] During the course of June 7, while still under sporadic shellfire, the beach was prepared as a supply ...

  6. Factbox-D-Day: What to expect from 80th anniversary in ... - AOL

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    Veterans and world leaders will meet in Normandy, northwestern France, on June 6 to mark the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings, when more than 150,000 Allied soldiers invaded France to ...

  7. Factbox-What you need to know about the D-Day 80th ... - AOL

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    World leaders and veterans gather in Normandy on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 D-Day landings, when more than 150,000 Allied soldiers invaded France in a major turning ...

  8. Normandy landings - Wikipedia

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    [d] [179] The beach and nearby streets were clogged with traffic for most of the day, making it difficult to move inland. [ 180 ] Major German strongpoints with 75 mm guns, machine-gun nests, concrete fortifications, barbed wire, and mines were located at Courseulles-sur-Mer , St Aubin-sur-Mer , and Bernières-sur-Mer . [ 181 ]

  9. Utah Beach - Wikipedia

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    Forces landing on Utah cleared the immediate area in less than an hour, and penetrated 6 miles (9.7 km) inland by the close of D-Day. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] Within two hours of landing, the 82nd Airborne captured the important crossroads at Sainte-Mère-Église, but they failed to neutralize the line of defenses along the Merderet on D-Day as planned.