Image:Infantry waiting to move off 'Queen White' Beach.jpg

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  • Description: OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

The British 2nd Army: Infantry waiting to move off 'Queen White' Beach, SWORD Area, while under enemy fire, on the morning of 6 June. The first landings on Sword were made by the British 3rd Infantry Division, 27th Armoured Brigade and Royal Marine and Army Commando units from General Crocker’s I Corps. By nightfall the British had 28,850 men ashore and the Orne bridge had been seized.

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