Sword Beach
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| Locations | Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer |
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| France | |
| Year | June 6, 1944 |
| Date | 6 June 1944 |
| Did you know | Five miles to the east of Sword was the Merville Battery where the Germans had placed 75-mm guns. |
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| ID | 1112541 |
About Sword Beach
Sword, commonly known as Sword Beach, was the code name given to one of the five main landing areas along the Normandy coast during the initial assault phase, Operation Neptune, of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of German-occupied France that commenced on 6 June 1944.
D-Day veteran Les Budding, 97, tells of first-wave role
... Les Budding, 97, was 18 years old when he served on board Landing Craft Flak 34, charged with providing covering fire for the first wave of troops who stormed Sword Beach on 6 June 1944...
D-Day veteran Dennis Roy Cooper gave the Legion D'honneur
... June this year, he was engaged in minesweeping from Sword Beach to Cherbourg from the Cotentin Peninsula...
I survived D-Day - my first champagne had
... He was one of the first men, the Gentlemen, the first step on Sword Beach - the British soldiers were , he says, and allowed the French to land first...
D-Day: What happened during the landings of 1944?
... In addition, Canadian forces established themselves on another beach - Juno - and the British got on to Sword Beach...
'I don't think we were frightened'
... They were a small, amphibious unit of highly-skilled men who landed on France s Sword Beach in the wave of initial advances on D-Day...
'I don't think we were frightened'
Ted Owens from Pembroke Dock , was 19 when he was part of The Royal Marine commandos.
They were a small, amphibious unit of highly-skilled men who landed on France's Sword Beach in The Wave of initial advances on D-Day.
It was 75 years ago, yet still the memories, smells and horror of the Normandy Landings are fresh in his mind.
Here, the 94-year-old and two other former veterans recall their memories of D-Day.
Source of news: bbc.com
