| Sword was by far the most heavily defended of all the landing beaches. The shelling forced the beach to be abandoned for further supply landings.
There is somewhere a Schematic print of the landing serials. The first ashore were the DD tanks almost immediately the Sappers. Both Assault and Field. All tasked with different assault and defensive positions to overcome. All were successful.
AS well as the printout of the landing serials, there is also a chart in double A4 size showing the pre D day position of every sea going craft in Southampton water.
I have both here somewhere in the house. I would hazard a guess that they are on the net somewhere? I got mine from the Normandy Veteran Association.
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