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D-Day, the Normandy Landings - June 6, 1944

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« on: June 07, 2009, 12:03:17 am »

Allied Order of Battle

The order of battle for the landings was approximately as follows, east to west:

British Second Army

    * 6th Airborne Division was delivered by parachute and glider to the east of the River Orne to protect the left flank. The division contained 7,900 men, including one Canadian battalion.[8][page needed]
    * 1st Special Service Brigade comprising No. 3, No. 4, No. 6 and No. 45 (RM) Commandos landed at Ouistreham in Queen Red sector (leftmost). No.4 Commando were augmented by 1 and 8 Troop (both French) of No. 10 (Inter Allied) Commando.
    * I Corps, 3rd Infantry Division and the 27th Armoured Brigade on Sword Beach, from Ouistreham to Lion-sur-Mer.
    * No. 41 (RM) Commando (part of 4th Special Service Brigade) landed on the far West of Sword Beach.[9]
    * 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade and No.48 (RM) Commando on Juno Beach, from Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer to Courseulles-sur-Mer.[8]
    * No. 46 (RM) Commando (part of 4th Special Service Brigade) at Juno to scale the cliffs on the left side of the Orne River estuary and destroy a battery. (Battery fire proved negligible so No.46 were kept off-shore as a floating reserve and landed on D+1).
    * XXX Corps, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division and 8th Armoured Brigade, consisting of 25,000 men landing on Gold Beach,[10] from Courseulles to Arromanches.
    * No. 47 (RM) Commando (part of 4th Special Service Brigade) on the West flank of Gold beach.
    * 79th Armoured Division operated specialist armour ("Hobart's Funnies") for mine-clearing, recovery and assault tasks. These were distributed around the Anglo-Canadian beaches.
    * 4th Free French Special Air Service Battalion from the British SAS Brigade, by parachute in Brittany.

Overall, the 2nd Army contingent consisted of 83,115 troops (61,715 of them British).[8] In addition to the British and Canadian combat units, two troops of No. 10 Commando were employed, manned by Frenchmen, and eight Australian officers were attached to the British forces as observers.[11] The nominally British air and naval support units included a large number of crew from Allied nations, including several RAF squadrons manned almost exclusively by foreign flight crew.
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