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SWORD BEACH. Military art prints of Sword beach, Sword beach  was one of the five Normandy invasion beaches. Sword beach was subdivided into four areas Queen beach, Roger, Peter and Oboe. Sword beach was a five mile beach from Ouistreham at the mouth of the River Orne on the east stretching west o Lion-sur-Mer. the British's 3rd   Division   the 1st Lancashire Regiment, 2nd East Yorkshire regiment,  The 8th Infantry Brigade and 13th / 18th Hussars.  The task of taking Caen and the airfields near by was given to the 3rd Division.  Losses on the first day was 630 dead and wounded. out of a force of 29,000 men.  

Sword beach was the far east beach and the other landing beaches were code named Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah. 

D-Day, Sword Beach, Normandy 1944 by David Pentland.

After suppressing the initial German defences, the Sherman Crab flail tank of Lance Sgt Johnson, 3 Troop C Squadron the 22nd Dragoons, 79th Armoured Division, clears a path through a minefield to allow tanks of 27th Armoured Brigade, and men of 3rd Infantry Division to breakout from the beaches. Fire support from surviving Sherman DD (amphibious) tanks of 13th /18th Hussars (QMO), proved invaluable in the initial push towards Caen

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Signature Edition of 80 prints from the signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 25 inches x 16.5 inches (64cm x 42cm). Price £145.00

Signed by Sergeant Ed Pearce and Craftsman Roy Bishop.


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Signed by Sergeant Titch Rayner.


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British troops in Royal Naval landing craft approach Sword Beach during the D- Day landings, while overhead Typhoons attack the German heavy gun and machine gun positions defending the beaches. Sword beach was the furthest east of the five Normandy invasion beaches - the others were codenamed Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah. Sword beach was subdivided into four areas; Queen, Roger, Peter and Oboe beaches, and was a five mile beach from Ouistreham at the mouth of the River Orne on the east stretching west to Lion-sur-Mer. At Sword Beach were the British 3rd Division, the 1st Lancashire Regiment, 2nd East Yorkshire regiment, the 8th Infantry Brigade and 13th / 18th Hussars. The task of taking Caen and the airfields nearby was given to the 3rd Division. Losses on the first day were 630 dead and wounded from a force of 29,000 men.

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D-Day, Sword Beach. Normandy 1944 by David Pentland  After suppressing the initial German defences, a Sherman " Crab" flail tank of the 22nd Dragoons, 79th Armoured Division,  clears a path through a minefield to allow tanks of 27th armoured Brigade, and men of 3rd Infantry Division to breakout  from the beaches. Fire support from surviving Sherman DD (amphibious) tanks of 13th /`18th Hussars (QMO), proved invaluable in the initial push towards Caen

The Invasion Begins by Commander Rex Phillips  British troops in Royal Naval landing craft approach Sword Beach with air support by the Royal Air Force.

D-Day by Chris Collingwood  June 6th 1944 allied troops land in Normandy, here assault troops of the South Lancashire Regiment of the British 3rd Infantry Division storm ashore at sword beach.

Operation Overlord by David Rowlands  9th (Irish) Field Battery firing on the 'Run-in-shoot' to Queen Beach. They were the first rounds fired at the Normandy Coast, D-Day 6th June, 1944. Queen Beach, one of the 4 sectors of Sword Beach, where most of the landings of D-Day were carried out. The Queen Beach sector which extended for 1.5km between Lion-sur-Mer and the western edge of Ouistretham. The attack was thus concentrated on a narrow one-brigade front. For once the DD tanks and other armour came in exactly on time and ahead of the infantry. The 8th brigade, with the 1st Battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment on the right and the 2nd East Yorkshire on the left.

Sword Beach by Terence Cuneo   

 

 

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