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Sword Beach
Injured and exhausted assault troops being helped ashore at Sword Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
By the end of D-Day, June 6, 1944, British forces had landed 29,000 men at Sword Beach.1
The assault on this beach was carried out by units of the British 3rd Division, with French and British commandos attached. While these 29,000 troops were the seaborne force, they were supported by the British 6th Airborne Division, which had landed inland via glider and parachute earlier that morning to secure the flanks and bridges over the Orne River and Caen Canal.12