When did British gliders land near the Orne River and Caen Canal bridges?

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

Elements of the British 6th Airborne Division, specifically Company D of the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, landed their gliders near the Orne River and Caen Canal bridges at 0016 hours on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day.1