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Sword beach

Sword beach. Ouistreham, Hermanville-sur-mer, the hillman fortress. Summary. Sword Beach. Map. Pegasus Bridge. Ouistreham. Philippe Kieffer and the No.4 Commando. Hermanville-sur-mer. Colleville-Montgomery. The Hillman Fortress. Sword beach. one of the main landing areas 8km

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Sword beach

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  1. Sword beach Ouistreham, Hermanville-sur-mer, the hillman fortress

  2. Summary Sword Beach Map Pegasus Bridge Ouistreham Philippe Kieffer and the No.4 Commando Hermanville-sur-mer Colleville-Montgomery The Hillman Fortress

  3. Sword beach one of the main landing areas 8km From ouistreham to aubin-sur-mer Easternmost landing site

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  5. Pegasus Bridge • Operation Deadstick • Operation Tonga • Euston 1 • One of tops-facts of the landing of Normandy

  6. Ouistreham 1942:no-man’s-land 80 works in concretes An observation post of artillery Philippe Kieffer 6 June 1944 No. 4 Commando Pegasus Bridge No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando

  7. Philippe Kieffer 24 October 1899 – 20 November 1962 lieutenant Two troops British Army commando unit Early in the Second World War

  8. Hermanville-sur-mer Operation Overlord Queen Beach South Lancashire Regiment landed on Queen White East Yorkshire Regiment landed on Queen Red

  9. colleville-montgomery Colleville-sur-orne Philippe Kieffer marshal montgomery 1946: Colleville-sur-orne became colleville-montgomery

  10. The hillman fortress • German bunker complex and command post • Near Colleville-Montgomery • British Suffolk Regiment(8th Infantry Brigade of the British 3rd Infantry Division) • Difficult to take • Sherman Fireflies • morning of 7 June • two officers and five men killed • 24 wounded

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