How many bridges over the Dives River did the British 6th Airborne Division destroy?

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Sword Beach Injured and exhausted assault troops being helped ashore at Sword Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The British 6th Airborne Division destroyed five bridges over the Dives River during the Normandy Invasion of World War II.

These demolitions were part of the division's broader objectives to isolate the battlefield and prevent German forces from launching counterattacks from the east toward the landing area at Sword Beach.1