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	::Sword Beach::
		Sword Beach was the furthest east of the five beaches targeted for D-Day.
		Sword Beach was based about nine miles to the north-east of the vital city of Caen and was less than ten miles from Gold Beach and four miles from the start of Juno Beach.
		Sword Beach itself was about five miles across and the town of Ouistreham was all but in the middle of the target beach.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /sword_beach.htm (552 words)

	Sword Beach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The landing was concentrated in Queen sector, on the beach of Hermanville-sur-Mer.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sword_Beach (542 words)

	D-Day: The British Beaches
		Sword Beach was the target for the 3rd Infantry Division (including a unit of French-British commandos under Commandant Philippe Kieffer).
		Although it was supposed to be the most heavily defended and although the initial fighting was costly, it was mercifully brief — lasting only a matter of minutes — and the assault afterwards moved forward speedily.
		Of the three easternmost beaches, Juno Beach in the centre was the roughest.
	www.eriksvane.com /dday2.htm (350 words)

	Sword Beach, D-Day
		Sword beach was one of the five Normandy invasion beaches.
		Sword beach was a five mile beach from Ouistreham at the mouth of the River Orne on the east stretching west o Lion-sur-Mer.
		Sword beach was the far east beach and the other landing beaches were code named Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah.
	www.military-art.com /dhm670.htm (600 words)

	Sword Beach
		Sword Beach is the eastern-most of the five D-Day invasion beaches in Normandy.
		Sword Beach actually refers to a five- mile stretch of beach from Ouistreham at the mouth of the Orne River on the east, to Lion-sur-Mer on the west.
		The beach was nine miles from the strategic city of Caen.
	www.swordbeach.com (346 words)

	GJS 4.4 Mod Closecombat.ca
		The shelving sand at Gold beach meant the landing craft grounded earlier than expected, and the men had a long way to wade ashore, this was the last thing they needed.
		Sword beach had been divided into four sectors, however the planning phases had revealed that two and a half of these were completely shielded by offshore rock formations, impassable to landing craft.
		The troops wading ashore were met with a sharp and costly struggle for possession of the beach, but nevertheless within a few hours the 8th Brigade were victorious and in the process of securing the beachhead.
	www.wargamer.com /Hosted/CloseCombatGJS/dday.htm (1641 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 6 \| 1944: 'You remember for the rest of your life'
		The doors of Fred's LCT were opened before they reached the beach and he watched as the first vehicle drove down the ramp and disappeared completely under the water.
		Sword beach was the most exposed landing area to enemy fire, with several German "strongpoints" to the south and, beyond the River Orne, the Merville Battery to the east.
		He specialised in mine clearance, but the beaches were the gateway for the troops and supplies feeding the growing Allied force in northern France and the work never stopped.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/witness/june/6/newsid_3753000/3753397.stm (1010 words)

	Stanley Galik - LCI 35 - Ships Cook 2/c US Navy WWII - LCI 35 1944 - June - July Landings
		On Thursday June 8th while tied to HMLCI 104 at the dock with the LCI (L) 14 alongside, additional British troops were being loaded to go to Sword Beach and the cable on the stern anchor was replaced.
		Troops were loaded at 1245 on Saturday June 24th and the LCI (L) 35 got underway at 2200 heading towards the assault area of Normandy arriving at 1200 on the June 25th.
		At 1414 the LCI (L) 35 landed at the pontoon dock on beach and troops began disembarking.
	www.galik.com /stanleygalik1922/lci/lci12.htm (2741 words)

	D-Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The beaches were booby-trapped with sharp prongs of iron and steel under the waves, which could rip the bottoms off landing craft.
		Attacking these beaches would be components of the Allied 21st Army Group, which was made up of the U.S. lst Army and the British 2nd Army.
		Attacking Gold Beach would be the 50th Infantry Division and the 7th Armored Division, both of the British XXX Corps.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/tours/normandy/D-Day.html (1635 words)

	Amazon.com: Sword Beach (Battle Zone Normandy): Books: Ken Ford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When British 3rd Infantry Division landed on Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day, it was the most powerful to date, comprising infantry, armor, commandos, self propelled artillery and anti-tank guns, specialist assault armor and a host of support units.
		Sword was the only Allied beachhead to suffer armored counterattack by a German panzer division on D-Day and from then on the invaders struggled to make any progress.
		Covering both the triumph of the Sword Beach landings and the disappointment of the failure to capitalize on that early success, the first seven days that British troops were back on the soil of mainland Europe make a fascinating story.
	www.amazon.com /Sword-Beach-Battle-Zone-Normandy/dp/0750930195 (758 words)

	Stanley Galik - LCI 35 - Ships Cook 2/c US Navy WWII - LCI 35 1944 - North Africa
		The beach obstacles at Sword confronting the troops landing were extensive but the dunes were not so high as Utah, and instead of bluffs behind the seawall there were French vacation homes.
		The plan for Sword called for the British 3rd Division, with French and British Commandos attached, to push across Sword Beach then pass through Ouistreham to capture Caen and Carpiquet (Airport)...
		The LCI 35 landed in the Roger Red Sector of the Sword Beach landing area.
	www.galik.com /stanleygalik1922/lci/lci11.htm (1512 words)

	D-DAY on JUNO
		They bagpipes howled as the Black Watch hit Juno Beach The bagpipes gave a simple message to the Germans defending Juno beach: we are crazy, we are coming, and you are going to die.
		In many cases the tanks never landed on the beach until after the Canadians had jumped the seawall and were engaged in street fights in the near by towns.
		B Company of the Highland regiment land to find the fortifications destroyed by naval fire and were able to move off the beaches quickly and with few casualties.
	www.stormpages.com /junobeach/d_day.html (797 words)

	De engelske aktioner på Sword Beach - D-dag 6. juni 1944 (Overlord) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sword Beach rummede desuden byen Ouistreham - den største by langs invasionskysten.
		Sword var inddelt i 4 sektorer - Oboe, Peter, Queen og Roger - men på grund af klipper var det kun i Queen sektoren - på Queen White og Queen Red - muligt at gøre landgang.
		Under mit besøg i Normandiet i 2004 mødte jeg på Sword Beach en veteran fra Suffolk regimentet, der havde deltaget i kampene om Hillman.
	www.mhweb.dk.cob-web.org:8888 /d-dag/b_sword.htm (1289 words)

	Memories of D-Day: Sword Beach
		We had rehearsed the ‘profile’ of the beach, and it was uncannily reassuring to find that it looked exactly like the model prepared in England.
		On beaching we holed ourselves on one of the ‘hedgehogs’, so puncturing several of our double-bottoms, but not in the upshot causing serious damage.
		Some of the material was unloaded on to the beach, but later that day, in the evening, was set on fire and began exploding.
	www.ddaymuseum.co.uk /memory_sword.htm (629 words)

	D-Day beaches travel guide - Wikitravel
		The task was formidable for the Germans had turned the coastline into a continuous fortress with guns, pillboxes, wire, mines and beach obstacles - and on it, depended the outcome of the war.
		Behind the coast is an old-fashioned farming landscape of grain fields, cattle and pastures, hedges and farmhouses.
		Take time to stroll on the beaches and through the villages and to drive country lanes that are once again regulated by rural rhythms, just as if they’d never been devastated at all.
	wikitravel.org /en/D-Day_beaches (746 words)

	CBBC Newsround \| FIND OUT \| Sword
		This was a British landing beach for the 3rd Division together with French and British commandos.
		The aim was to capture the town of Caen which was at the centre of the local road network.
		About 29,000 soldiers landed on the beach on D-Day and there were 630 casualties, dead or wounded.
	news.bbc.co.uk /cbbcnews/hi/find_out/newsid_3767000/3767589.stm (116 words)

	Military History Online - D-Day June 6, 1944
		As well as being the furthest east of the landing beaches, "Sword" was also the smallest, only wide enough for a brigade-sized landing force.
		The assault force was made up of the 1st South Lancashire Battalion on the right, heading for Queen White Beach, and the 2nd East Yorks on the left, its target Queen Red Beach.
		As a result the engineers were unable to clear all of the beach obstacles, and follow-up waves of landing craft became severely congested as they tried to find a safe path to shore.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/dday/sword.aspx (777 words)

	Sword Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Accordingly, a new landing beach appeared east of Juno Beach, codenamed Sword.
		Theoretically, this stretched from Langrune to Ouistreham, but because of the risks involved in a direct attack against the powerful Ouistreham defences and the impossibility of landing in front of Lion and Luc-sur-Mer due to coastal reefs, the attack eventually took place over quite a narrow front.
		However, the overcrowding on the beach, resulting both from German artillery fire and the narrowness of the streets, dangerously slowed the flow of troops inland.
	www.normandiememoire.com /NM60Anglais/2_histo3/histo3_p7_gb.htm (391 words)

	Sword Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		'''Sword Beach''' was the codename for a landing area for the Allied invaders on the coast of Normandy during D-Day on June 6, 1944.
		The defending troops belonged to the 716th Infantry Division and could call on the support of the nearby 21st Panzer division.
		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, 54 German tanks were destroyed or disabled out of 98.
	sword-beach.iqnaut.net (434 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Sword Beach - A1142182
		Together with Canadian forces from Juno beach, 3rd Division was to take Caen - or at least 'effectively mask' the town, in the carefully chosen words of 1st Corps commander Lieutenant General John Crocker.
		At Sword, as at Gold and Juno, British troops faced fierce but short-lived German opposition and a friendly reception from the local population.
		Recollections of D-Day: June 6, 1944 with the 76th (Highland) Field Regiment on Sword Beach.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1142182 (567 words)

	D-Day on Sword
		The focal point of the German countermeasures was the city of Caen an environs—inland from Juno and Sword beach.
		The 9th and 185th Brigades landed later and were meant to attack with the armor to the city of Caen.
		We were just coming up off the beach, and I was passing a house when I saw a little girl by the side of the road.
	www.warchronicle.com /british_3rd_div/historiantales_wwii/ddaysword.htm (3354 words)

	Sword Beach
		Units pushed gradually inland and neutralised the defences beyond the beach at Morris and Hillman bunker complexes.
		There has been much development along Sword Beach, but it is still possible to find traces of the D Day landings and German defences.
		The Hermanville War Cemetery, once called 'Sword Beach Cemetery' contains the graves of many 3rd Division men who fell here.
	battlefieldsww2.50megs.com /sword_beach.htm (289 words)

	Second World War Books Review
		This new British beach was designated 'Sword Beach' and it stretched from St Aubin sur Mer in the west to the mouth of the River Orne in the east.
		The inclusion of Sword Beach in the invasion plan now made it possible to contemplate seizing Caen on the first day of the landings, before the enemy could mobilise to prevent the city falling to the Allies.
		Even heavier tire criss-crossed the shoreline from 88mm and 75mm guns firing along the length of the beach from the protected confines of their concrete gun emplacements located on the edge of the dunes.
	stonebooks.com /archives/040411.shtml (2898 words)

	The History Guy: World War 2: The Invasion of Normandy (1944)
		The Allied forces, based in Britain, decided to begin the invasion by landing a huge army at a place called Normandy Beach, which is located on the northwest coast of France.
		Code-named "Operation Overlord", and commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allies landed on June 6, 1944 at five beaches in the Normandy area with the code names of: Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Gold Beach, Juno Beach and Sword Beach.
		A map of the invasion at Normandy, with the landing beach in the background.
	www.historyguy.com /normandy_links.html (950 words)

	Saving Private Ryan: Operation Overlord
		Because high tide occurred later at Gold, Juno and Sword beaches, the British and Canadian forces were set to land at 7:25 a.m.
		Although the initial wave of LCTs at Gold Beach suffered damage from obstacles and mines, German infantry defenses had been significantly reduced by pre-landing naval bombardments and the British 50th Infantry Division was able to accomplish almost all of its objectives by the end of the day.
		The British troops at Sword Beach encountered relatively little initial resistance from the Germans, but were later tasked with repelling a counterattack by the German 21st Panzer Division.
	www.sproe.com /o/overlord.html (1401 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		After bundling out of his landing craft, he plunged into the sea at Lion sur Mer on Sword beach, dumped the bicycle and concentrated on trying to keep Betsy dry.
		Mr Burrows, from Belfast, proudly wore his green beret with the Harp and Crown badge of the Ulster Rifles as he walked along the beach with his lifelong friend and comrade-in-arms Richard Keegan, a sprightly 80-year-old from D Company of the same battalion.
		In 1944 the two men had fought their way off the beach and taken the long and bloody road towards Caen.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/05/ndday05.xml (820 words)

	Sword Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Queen Beach, one of the 4 sectors of Sword Beach, where most of the landings of D-Day were carried out.
		Pioneers were among the first British troops to land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, by 1st April 1944 there were over 35,500 pioneers in Normandy.
		In the third of four D-Day volumes, Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th Airborne Division and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vital left flank of the invasion.
	www.second-world-war.com /sword_beach.htm (1185 words)

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